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The joint and several Informations of Edward<lb></lb>
Pair of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo660">Grays Inn</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo661">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n711-1">Thomas Godfrey</rs>
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of Luke now Lane in the same<lb></lb>
County Coal Seller who being on Oath severally say as<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo662">follows</rs>
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and first this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n711-2">Edward Parr</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
saith that on Saturday the twenty third day of November<lb></lb>
Instant as he was walking up <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo663">Ludgate hill</rs>
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, he<del>was</del>
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mix'd with a large Crowd of people that<lb></lb>
were ging along with Lord Rodney and the City Committer<lb></lb>
when in prosecution, and that receiving a sudden Purk backwards<lb></lb>
and suspecting it might be made for the purpose of<lb></lb>
diverting his attention, he immediately looked down to his<lb></lb>
Breeches Pocket, and saw the Band of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n711-3">Samuel Jacobs</rs>
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the Prisoner now under Examination close to his said<lb></lb>
Pocket says that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n711-4">Samuel Jacobs</rs>
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instantly<lb></lb>
with draw his Hand<del>an his from</del>
and at the same Instant<lb></lb>
this Informant felt a Violent Plack at his said Pocket<lb></lb>
and in perfectly satisfied that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n711-5">Samuel Jacobs</rs>
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that took from him the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo664">Pinch</rs>
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beck Watch now<lb></lb>
produced, which is this Informant Property and of the<lb></lb>
Value, as he believes, of Forty Shillings and upwards, and this Informant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n711-6">Thomas Godfrey</rs>
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for himself saith that being on <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo665">Ludgate</rs>
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Hill on the Day above mentioned in the Crowd some<lb></lb>
person pushed against him and pulled his Leg on which<lb></lb>
he looked down and saw the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo666">Pinch</rs>
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beck Watch now<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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produced laying in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo667">Kenwell</rs>
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, that he immediately<lb></lb>
picked it up and called out who has lost a Watch, that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n711-7">Edward Parr</rs>
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the other Informant immediately<lb></lb>
declared he had, and then had the Prisoner Jacobs by the<lb></lb>
Colear whom he declard had picked his Pocket of it<lb></lb>
upon this Informant delivered the said Watch to the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n711-8">Edward Parr</rs>
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<p n="712">Taken at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo668">Guild hall</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15093_date99">27th day of November 1782</rs>
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before me}</p>
<p n="713"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n713-1">James Townsend</rs>
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<p n="714"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n714-1">Edwd. Parr</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n714-2">Thos. Godfrey</rs>
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