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<p n="802"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo543">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n802-1">James<lb></lb>
Gifford</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo544">Rotherhithe</rs>
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Butcher<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n802-2">John Cornish</rs>
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Servant to said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n802-3">James Gifford</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n802-4">George Carr</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo545">Saint Georges Market</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ168">Butcher</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date163">16th. day of<lb></lb>
February 1787</rs>
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<p n="803">Who being on Oath severally say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n803-1">James Gifford</rs>
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for himself says That on Wednesday<lb></lb>
the seventh instant he went to the House of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n803-2">William Kimpton</rs>
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now present who keeps the<lb></lb>
sign of the Coopers Arms in Five Fool Lane<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo546">Southwark</rs>
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at which time a Person was sitting<lb></lb>
in the top Room dressed in a smoak Frock<lb></lb>
That soon after said Kimpton came in and said<lb></lb>
to said Person You have got some Sheep to sell<lb></lb>
here is a Person, Meaning this Informant, as<lb></lb>
likely to buy them as any body That this<lb></lb>
Informant asked said Man what Sheep they<lb></lb>
were when said Kimpton replied they were<lb></lb>
Welch one or half bred ones such as were bred<lb></lb>
"on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo547">Finchley Common</rs>
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" That Kempton asked said<lb></lb>
Man how many there were when said Man<lb></lb>
replied Nineteen but he should sell but ten<lb></lb>
of them That this Informant asked said Kimpton<lb></lb>
and said Man (whom he has since been informed<lb></lb>
is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n803-3">Joseph Mash</rs>
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) where he should see them<lb></lb>
when said ("Mash replied at the Green Man<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo548">Muzzle Hill</rs>
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and they agreed to meet there<lb></lb>
as the Friday following for that purpose<lb></lb>
That</p>
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