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<p n="928"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo576">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n928-1">John Arthur</rs>
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of Great <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo577">Queen<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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Holborn Cabinet Maker and Broker, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n928-2">Thomas Dixon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Porter to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n928-3">John Arthur</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n928-4">Robert Orford</rs>
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at Mr<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n928-5">Brooks No</rs>
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23 Holborn Pawn broker and Salesman<lb></lb>
taken on Oath before me this 28th. day of August 1789</p>
<p n="929">Who being on Oath severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n929-1">John<lb></lb>
Arthur</rs>
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for himself says, that on the 9th. day of July last, there was Stolen<lb></lb>
from his Shop door in Great <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo578">Queen Street</rs>
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, a Circular Mahogany<lb></lb>
Card table, and that the table now produced by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n929-2">Robert<lb></lb>
Orford</rs>
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is the same as was so Stolen, and is this Informants<lb></lb>
property; And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n929-3">Thomas Dixon</rs>
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for himself says, that the<lb></lb>
Table now produced was Feloniously Stolen from his Master's<lb></lb>
Shop door as aforesaid, whilst he this Informant was gone into the<lb></lb>
<del>Shop</del>
Warehouse to<del>fetch</del>
get another table, which he was ordered<lb></lb>
to carry to a Customer. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n929-4">Robert Orford</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself says, that in the Afternoon of the said 9th. of July last,<lb></lb>
the Prisoner now present, who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n929-5">John Smith</rs>
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came<lb></lb>
to his Masters house in Holborn, and asked Informant, if he would<lb></lb>
buy a table, Informant replied he could not buy it without seeing<lb></lb>
it, that said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n929-6">John Smith</rs>
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then said, he would go and fetch it, that in<lb></lb>
about a quarter of an hour he returned, and brought the table<del>with</del>
<lb></lb>
now produced by this Informant with him. that Informant gave<lb></lb>
him a Guinea for it, and further agreed to give said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n929-7">John Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
One Guinea and an half for the fellow to it, which he said he<lb></lb>
should have finished in a few days, but that he never<lb></lb>
brought it.</p>
<p n="930">Sworn before me the day and<lb></lb>
Year first above Written.}</p>
<p n="931"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n931-1">J Addington</rs>
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<p n="932"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n932-1">Jno. Arthur</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n932-2">Thos Dixon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n932-3">Robt Orford</rs>
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