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<p n="1155"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo379">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of Nichol as Oakley of the parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Botolph Bishop Gate Street without in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo380">City of London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45013_occ131">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1155-1">Daniel Clarke</rs>
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of the same place <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45013_occ132">Weaver</rs>
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taken upon Oath<lb></lb>
the third Day of November in the Year of our<lb></lb>
Lord 1769 before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1155-2">David Wilmot</rs>
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Esquire<lb></lb>
one of his Majesty's Justices of peace<lb></lb>
forth <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo381">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1156">This Informant upon his Oath saith about<lb></lb>
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Seven Weeks ago at about two o'Clock on<lb></lb>
a Tuesday Morning two persons came up Stairs<lb></lb>
into this Informant Masters Workshop one<lb></lb>
of them was a tall Man whose Name is<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1156-1">Thomas Haddin</rs>
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and the other was a short<lb></lb>
Man whom he did not know The said Haddon<lb></lb>
had a Bonnet on when he came in which<lb></lb>
he pulled off and flung on the Ground and<lb></lb>
the short man had something black on his<lb></lb>
Face And this Informant saith that he knew<lb></lb>
Hadden because he drank Ted with his<lb></lb>
Masters the Sunday before And this Informant<lb></lb>
saith that each of the said persons had a<lb></lb>
Cutlass in this hand and the said Short Man<lb></lb>
had a Candle and the said persons both of<lb></lb>
them with the said Cutlasses did cut and<lb></lb>
destroy a Quantity of Silk in his said<lb></lb>
Masters Loom part of which was manufact used<lb></lb>
and part of it unmanerfactured And this<lb></lb>
Informant saith that he sat up in Bed whilst<lb></lb>
he saw the said Work cut but the said persons<lb></lb>
did not see him as he believes because the<lb></lb>
Bed was behind a Warsing Mill And this<lb></lb>
Informant saith that he did not see the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo382">Haddon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
till about three Weeks after when he lit him in to his<lb></lb>
Masters house and this Informant knew him<lb></lb>
again and as soon as he was gone he told his<lb></lb>
Mistress that was the Man who cut the Work</p>
<p n="1157">Sworn before me the day and<lb></lb>
Year above written}</p>
<p n="1158">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1158-1">D Wilmot</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1158-2">Nicholas Oakley</rs>
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