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<p n="297"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo163">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n297-1">Miles Gardner</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n297-2">East<lb></lb>
Molesworth</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo164">Hampton Court</rs>
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in Surry<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ57">Waterman</rs>
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taken before me this 9th. day of<lb></lb>
February 1768</p>
<p n="298">Who being upon Oath says that about 10 o'Clock last<lb></lb>
Night as he was in<del> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo165">King's hard Court</rs>
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</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo166">Russel Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo167">Covent Garden</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a Woman now present who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n298-1">Eleanor Steel</rs>
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desired him<lb></lb>
to go home with her, that he accordingly went with her to a<lb></lb>
House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo168">King's head</rs>
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Court where he laid down on the floor in<lb></lb>
a Room up two pair of Stairs having then 14 Guineas & a<lb></lb>
sixpence in one pocket and a six and thirty Shilling piece &<lb></lb>
four Shillings in another Pocket and fell a sleep the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n298-2">Eleanor Steel</rs>
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being in the Room as likewise another Woman<lb></lb>
who is lying in and her young Child, that when he waked about<lb></lb>
six o'Clock this Morning he found that the above mentioned 14<lb></lb>
Guineas and six pence had been taken not of his pocket &<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n298-3">Eleanor Steel</rs>
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was gone away, that the other Woman<lb></lb>
told him where he was likely to find the said Eleanor, that he<lb></lb>
went by her Directions to the Sign of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo169">two Brewers</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo170">Banbridge<lb></lb>
Street St. Giles's</rs>
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where he found the said Eleanor asleep, that on<lb></lb>
his charging her with picking his pocket She confessed the<lb></lb>
same and returned him eleven Guineas & a half and seven<lb></lb>
Shillings of the Money,<del>and</del>
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<p n="299">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n299-1">Miles<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Gardner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="300">Sworn before me the day<lb></lb>
& Year first above written}</p>
<p n="301"> <obscured></obscured>
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