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<p n="308"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo219">London</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n308-1">William Richardson</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15067_date48">17th. day of March 1756</rs>
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<p n="309">This Informant on his Oath saith that about Six Weeks ago<lb></lb>
this Informant together with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n309-1">George Barker</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n309-2">William Wells</rs>
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<lb></lb>
agreed to go a Thieving any thing they could light of, that<lb></lb>
about Six o' Clock in the Evening Walls went into a Shop in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo220">Star Alley</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo221">Fenchurch Street</rs>
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to buy Worsted when he stoll<lb></lb>
about Twenty Yards of Chequed Linen and Two linen<lb></lb>
Handkerchiefs white this Informant and Barker staid in the<lb></lb>
Street to wait for the said Wells who brought out the Linen<lb></lb>
and Handkerchiefs which he had Stole as aforesaid, they then<lb></lb>
went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo222">the three Tun Alehouse</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo223">near Aldgate</rs>
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where a Jew<lb></lb>
under took to sell the Chequed Linen and in a Short time brought<lb></lb>
them Ten Shillings which was divided between them, that the<lb></lb>
Two Handkerchiefs they sold to Abraham a Jew then living in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo224">Hounds ditch</rs>
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for Eighteen pence And this Informant on<lb></lb>
his Oath further saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n309-3">George Backer</rs>
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and this<lb></lb>
Informant about five Weeks ago went into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo225">Red Lyon Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo226">Holborn</rs>
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about Seven o'Clock in the Morning when Barker<lb></lb>
unbolted the Hatch of a Linen drapers Shop and this Informant<lb></lb>
went in and stole about Sixteen Yards of Holland (there<lb></lb>
being no body in the Shop) which they carry'd directly to the<lb></lb>
said Jew who gave them Ten Shillings and Six pence for it<lb></lb>
That about a Month ago the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n309-4">George Barker</rs>
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and this<lb></lb>
Informant stole Six pair of Worsted Stockings out of a Shop<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo227">Smock alley</rs>
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which they sold to the said Jew for Nine Shillings</p>
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