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<p n="152"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Suffolk ss.</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15078_n152-1">Samuel Weavers</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15078_geo71">Sturston</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15078_geo72">County of Suffolk</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15078_occ53">Yeoman</rs>
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taken on oath this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15078_date28">twentieth day of<lb></lb>
March 1767</rs>
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at the Sessions of Oyer and Tennuer and Delivery holden at<lb></lb>
Bury Saint Edmunds in and for the same County</p>
<p n="153">This Informant saith that on or about the 28th of October last<lb></lb>
He saw two Men in a Field belonging to this Informant at the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15078_geo73">Sturston</rs>
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aforesaid One on Horseback and the other on<lb></lb>
foot where this Informants Horses were feeding and that the<lb></lb>
man or Horseback had a Halter in his Hand and the other<lb></lb>
a Bride and being amongst this Informants Horses He had reason<lb></lb>
to suspect them of having an Intention to steal some of them,<lb></lb>
and accordingly apprehended the said two men, and seized the<lb></lb>
Horse on which One of the men was riding, and caused the Horse<lb></lb>
to be advertized, upon which One Mr. Lacey came down<lb></lb>
from London and claimed the said Horse and made Information<lb></lb>
before the Rev Mr Gould a Justices of the Peace for this County that<lb></lb>
the said Horse was his Property and that he was stolen from a<lb></lb>
Publick House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15078_geo74">Smithfield Market</rs>
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London And this Informant<lb></lb>
further saith that the said mens Names are <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15078_n153-2">Thomas Hale</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15078_n153-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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and are the same Men that are now in the Custody of the<lb></lb>
Sheriff of Suffolk</p>
<p n="154">Sworn in Court the Day<lb></lb>
and year first above written}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15078_n154-1">Richd; Adams</rs>
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<p n="155"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15078_n155-1">Saml Weavers</rs>
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