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Middlesex to wit

The Information of James
Webster
< no role > of No. 11 Moor Street< no role >
Soho Stay Maker taken before the
this 13th. day of November 1788

who being upon oath says that he has known
the person now present who calls himself Simon
Young
< no role > from his Infancy that about four months
ago said young came to Informants Lodging in
Moor Street told him he had aquantity of Lace to
sell and would be obliged to him to sell it for him
That Informant said he would and said Young
desired him to call for it as Mr. Hill's the next
Day which he did when said young gave him a
Parcel tyed up containing Gold and Silver Lace and
desired Informant to sell it burn't or unburn't as
he could in Long Acre and being him the Money
That Informant carried said Lace to a House
in Long acre and sold it for three or four Guineas
but the precise Sam he cannot say And that said
Young called upon Informant in the afternoon at
his said Lodging for the Money which he paid
him and received half a Crown for his trouble that
about a Month after said Young called upon Informant
again told him he had more Lace for him to sell
and desired he would call upon him at Mr. Hills
for it which he did when said Young gave him
a Parcel tyed up as before containing Silver Lace
and desired him to sell it in Long acre as before
which he did for two or three Guineas at the
same




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