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<p n="329"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50483_geo236">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n329-1">Benjamin Lueas</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50483_geo237">Chanders<lb></lb>
Street Covent garden</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50483_occ84">Silk Meuer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Taken before ne this 31st May 1760</p>
<p n="330">Who being Oath says that on or about the 16th. of May Instant, one Piew<lb></lb>
of Green Corded Silks the property of this Informant and Company in Quartaly Twenty<lb></lb>
Yards was feloniously Taken and carried awayout of this Informts.<lb></lb>
shop situate in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50483_geo238">Chanders Street</rs>
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aforesaid says that Yesterday one <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n330-3">samuel Cottle</rs>
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, als <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n330-1">John Bradford</rs>
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als <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n330-4">William saunders</rs>
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, being apprehended.<lb></lb>
on suspicion of stealing the said silk Confessed to this Informant<lb></lb>
that he had an unfortunate Wife who was given to drinking, and who<lb></lb>
had Taken the said silk and given it to him,says that the said Cottle<lb></lb>
als Bradford als Saunders then gave this Informant a direction in<lb></lb>
writing whose he had Pawned part of the aforesaid silk at several<lb></lb>
Places, at which several Places this Informant found the said silk<lb></lb>
according to the said Cottle's directions says that on the said Cottles's<lb></lb>
Wife Vizt. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n330-5">Eleanor Cottle</rs>
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's being apprehended she confessed to thi<obscured></obscured>
s<lb></lb>
Informant that she about the Time aforesaid did steal the said<lb></lb>
silk out this Informant's shop at th Time she came to a she<lb></lb>
for a little Cloth, and this Informant farther says that he verily<lb></lb>
be levies the several Remnant of silk now produced<obscured></obscured>
heard<lb></lb>
to him to he the Property of this Informant and Company & which<lb></lb>
were stolen from them as aforesaid one of which said Remnant<lb></lb>
was found in<del>the Lodging</del>
a shop belonging to the said Cattleals<lb></lb>
Broadford ats saunders up the Chimney and that it wesley his directions<lb></lb>
it was formed there</p>
<p n="331">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
31st. day of July 1760}<lb></lb>
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<p n="332"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n332-1">Benjn Luins</rs>
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