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The voluntary Information and Confession of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n450-1">Joseph Harrison</rs>
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taken on Oath before <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n450-2">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n450-3">William Quarrill</rs>
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of His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ168">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo347">Middlesex</rs>
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this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15088_date49">19th. day of June in the year of our<lb></lb>
Lord 1777</rs>
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day of June instant about one in the morning he this Informant<lb></lb>
together with one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-1">Thomas Bright</rs>
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Anderson</rs>
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went to the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-3">Thomas Williams</rs>
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and with an Iron cros wrenched<lb></lb>
and forced open the Cellar Window under the dwelling House of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-4">Thomas Williams</rs>
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and after they had so done they pulled<lb></lb>
wit or fastned the said Collar Window again by putting a piece<lb></lb>
of Paper between the same and shop and then he this Informant the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-5">Thomas Bright</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-6">John Stewart</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-7">Edward Anderson</rs>
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went<lb></lb>
away Saith that in the Night of Thursday the the twelfth<lb></lb>
day of June instant he this Informant the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-8">Thomas Bright</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-9">John Stewart</rs>
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and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-10">Edward Anderson</rs>
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came again to the<lb></lb>
House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-11">Thomas Williams</rs>
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, and pushed or pulled open the said<lb></lb>
Cellar Window (which remained in the same state as they left<lb></lb>
it in the night of Saturday above mentioned) and then he this<lb></lb>
Informant the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-12">Thomas Bright</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n451-13">John Stewart</rs>
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and Edward<lb></lb>
Anderson went into the said Cellar and from thence by means<lb></lb>
of a Trap Door they all got up and went into the shop of<lb></lb>
the said Thomas Williams and after staying there some time<lb></lb>
examining the goods therein they put into a Bag Handkerchiefs<lb></lb>
several pieces of Silk about twenty eight scarlet Cloth Cloaks<lb></lb>
several pieces of Lace and five or Six pieces of Linen, and whom<lb></lb>
they had so done<del>they</del>
He this Informant went and in Locked<lb></lb>
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