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The joint and several Informations of Thomas
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Dukes place
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Sarah Simon
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Ann Groves
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who being severally on Oath say
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as follows and first this Informant Thomas Lermitte
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for himself saith that he hath had lately stolen from his
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two pieces of figured velvet, the one piece containing
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twelve Yards and the other piece nine, both of the
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value of ten pounds and upwards, says that he hath seen
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and examined the two waistcoat pieces
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of
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now produced and believe,
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they were a part of the figured Velvet stolen from him
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as aforesaid and this Informant
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Edward Mason
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for
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himself saith that he hath viewed the two Waistcoat
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pieces now produced, saith that both the pieces were
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manufactured by him this Informant, says that one is a
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new pattern and that he hath only sold thirty five Yards
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thereof to wit to the Informant Lermitte fourteen Yards
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and to Messrs.
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Carr & Kesteven
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twenty one Yards, says that he sold nine yards of the other
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Patern to the said Informant Lermitte, And this Informant
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James Kesteven
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for himself saith that since the Delivery of
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the twenty one Yards abovementioned, then hath been only
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one Yard and half thereof sold by him or his Partner, and that
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to a Mr. Monkhouse a Taylor in
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, for a Customer of
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his at that End of the TownAnd this Informant Henry Boyce
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for himself saith that he purchased the two Waistcoat
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pieces now produced of he Informant
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Sarah Davis
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at the
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price of one Guinea, says the same were sold and delivered
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to him on Sunday last was Son night, And the Informant
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Sarah Davis
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for herself saith that on sunday the seventh
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day of this Instants October,
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Isaac Sakey
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the prisoner now
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under Examination came to her this Informants Apartments
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in
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Dukes place,
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and
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offered to sell to her two pieces of figured
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Velvet
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contain
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amounting in Quantity to twenty one yard
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except one Quarter, that they at first differed about the price
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and the said
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Isaac Sakey
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