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<p n="1695"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo615">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1695-1">George Hartley</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this 14th. day of May 1770</p>
<p n="1696">Who being upon oath says that he knows<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-1">Thomas Spiller</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-2">John Ward</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-3">John Cook</rs>
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now Present, Says that about six Weeks ago, he this In-<lb></lb>
formant in Company with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-4">Thomas Spiller</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-5">John Ward</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-6">John Cook</rs>
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, have at Different times robbed the drying Grounds of<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-7">Charles Napper</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45015_occ222">callicoe Printer</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo616">Old Street</rs>
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, says that he<lb></lb>
and said Cook first Stole two Pieces of Callicoe twenty Yards each<lb></lb>
out of said drying Grounds, says that a Weaver in White Horse Court<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo617">Goswell Street</rs>
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Produced the man that bought the said Callico, at the<lb></lb>
Sign of the White Lion in Christoppers alley, says that after this he<lb></lb>
and said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-8">John Ward</rs>
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stole four Pieces of Quaruple containing 36<lb></lb>
Yards in each Piece which was sold to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-9">Aaron Spencer</rs>
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and one Lipe,<lb></lb>
that after this the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-10">John Ward</rs>
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the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-11">Thomas Spiller</rs>
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and this<lb></lb>
Informant Stole out of the Said drying Grounds, four more pieces<lb></lb>
of Quaruple which was sold to the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-12">Aaron Spencer</rs>
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and said<lb></lb>
Lipe, says that after this he and Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-13">John Ward</rs>
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Stole five Pieces<lb></lb>
more of Quaruple and thirteen Pieces of Emerties which was sold<lb></lb>
to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-14">Aaron Spencer</rs>
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and Lipe, says that all the above said goods<lb></lb>
were sold for about twelve Pounds, and that a Person now Present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1696-15">Joseph Wright</rs>
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, bought the said two Pieces of<lb></lb>
Callico which he and said Cook Stole</p>
<p n="1697">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
14th day of May 1770}<lb></lb>
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<p n="1698">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1698-1">George<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Hartley</rs>
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Mark</p>
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