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The Information of
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Who being Oath says that on or about the 16th. of May Instant, one Piew
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of Green Corded Silks the property of this Informant and Company in Quartaly Twenty
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Yards was feloniously Taken and carried awayout of this Informts.
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shop situate in
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, being apprehended.
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on suspicion of stealing the said silk Confessed to this Informant
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that he had an unfortunate Wife who was given to drinking, and who
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had Taken the said silk and given it to him,says that the said Cottle
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als Bradford als Saunders then gave this Informant a direction in
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writing whose he had Pawned part of the aforesaid silk at several
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Places, at which several Places this Informant found the said silk
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according to the said Cottle's directions says that on the said Cottles's
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Wife Vizt.
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Informant that she about the Time aforesaid did steal the said
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silk out this Informant's shop at th Time she came to a she
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for a little Cloth, and this Informant farther says that he verily
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be levies the several Remnant of silk now produced
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to him to he the Property of this Informant and Company & which
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were stolen from them as aforesaid one of which said Remnant
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was found in
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a shop belonging to the said Cattleals
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Broadford ats saunders up the Chimney and that it wesley his directions
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it was formed there
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Sworn before me this
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31st. day of July 1760}
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