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<p n="119">21st. October 1788</p>
<p n="120"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15101_n120-1">John Goss</rs>
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stopped<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15101_n120-3">Thos. Carpmeal</rs>
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at Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15101_n120-2">Augustus<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15101_occ89">Refiner</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15101_geo86">Foster Lane</rs>
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this day on<lb></lb>
a charge of having Silver supposed to have<lb></lb>
been Stolen</p>
<p n="121"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15101_n121-1">Augustus Browne</rs>
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on his Oath says that<lb></lb>
Yesterday between 11 & 12 o Clock<del>Thos.</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15101_n121-3">John<lb></lb>
Goss</rs>
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now present brought to his House in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15101_geo87">Foster Lane</rs>
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two Ingots of Silver lately molted<lb></lb>
down (as he believes) both weighing together<lb></lb>
229<obscured></obscured>
..14dwts. and which Silver he suspects has<lb></lb>
been stolen</p>
<p n="122">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15101_date11">21st. day of October 1788</rs>
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<p n="123">N Bond</p>
<p n="124">Augustus Browne</p>
<p n="125"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15101_n125-1">John<del>Thomas</del>
Goss</rs>
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says That he is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15101_occ90">Pawn broker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
by Profession and keeps a Pawn Broker &<lb></lb>
Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15101_geo88">Cable Street</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15101_geo89">Ratcliffe Highway</rs>
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<lb></lb>
which he has kept between 2 & 3 Years<lb></lb>
That the two Ingots of Silver which he this<lb></lb>
Examinant brought to Mr. Browne above<lb></lb>
stated, he himself melted down, but when he<lb></lb>
cannot say-That he melted it in his Kitchen<lb></lb>
in a Crucible and that no Person whatsoever <lb></lb>
assisted him, now says that it was in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
the Kitchen of a friend of his, but not</p>
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