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<p n="66"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx ss</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n66-1">Lewis Barnett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me one of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45002_occ34">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the County<lb></lb>
aforesaid</p>
<p n="67">Who being upon Oath saith that this Day about noon this<lb></lb>
Informt. hearing a Noise in an Adjoining Room next the<lb></lb>
Stair Case in his Dwelling house This Informt. Imediately<lb></lb>
came out of a Closett where he was then at Work in an<lb></lb>
Outer Room where a Coat and other Apparel of this<lb></lb>
Informt. was laid and mised a Coat with Metal Buttons<lb></lb>
And this Informt. saith he directly went out in pursuit of<lb></lb>
the person that had stolen the said Coat & in about Ten<lb></lb>
Minuits came up with the Woman now present who Calls<lb></lb>
herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n67-1">Mary Smith</rs>
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who this Informt. asked if she had<lb></lb>
seen any person with a Coat answering the Description of<lb></lb>
the Coat he had lost & she thereupon told this Informt. that<lb></lb>
there was some<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
people dealing for such a Coat in the<lb></lb>
next Street but she did not offer to produce the Coat to this<lb></lb>
Informt. till he asked her what she had in her Apron & thereon<lb></lb>
she opened it & then this Informt. saw his own Coat And this<lb></lb>
Informt. verily bels. the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n67-2">Mary Smith</rs>
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is the person that<lb></lb>
Stole the said Coat from this Informt.</p>
<p n="68">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45002_date17">29th. day of January 1757</rs>
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before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n68-1">Saunder Welch</rs>
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<p n="69"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n69-1">Lewis Burnett</rs>
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