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<p n="1497"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1343">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1497-1">Owen<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ594">Servant</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1497-2">John<lb></lb>
Perkins</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1344">Old Bailey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Silver Flatter taken before me<lb></lb>
this 25th: day of October 1788</p>
<p n="1498">Who being upon Oath says that he has known<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1498-1">Robert Cooper</rs>
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about two Years that he became<lb></lb>
acquainted with said Cooper through Cooper<lb></lb>
purchasing Metal and Cross at Mr. Perkins's<lb></lb>
House That he hath Melted Silver for said Cooper<lb></lb>
three or four times at Mr. Perkins's null each<lb></lb>
time that the first time he melted for said<lb></lb>
Cooper was about six or seven Months ago consisting<lb></lb>
of French Crowns some few Dollars and some<lb></lb>
Rupees a Broken Tea Spoon and a few broken<lb></lb>
Buckles but nothing else whatsoever That<lb></lb>
this melting produced two Ingots consisting of<lb></lb>
about one Hundred Ounces each which Ingots<lb></lb>
said Cooper took away paying this Informant one<lb></lb>
half penny per Ounce for Melting them That<lb></lb>
about a Month after this the said Cooper came<lb></lb>
again to the said Flatting Miles and brought<lb></lb>
Articles of Silver of the same kind before mentioned<lb></lb>
but of no other which this Informant melted in the<lb></lb>
presence</p>
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