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<p n="1738"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo638">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n1738-1">Michael Almond</rs>
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taken before me this 23d day of May 1770</p>
<p n="1739">Who being upon oath says, that he is a Porter and Butler to the Society<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo639">Clements Inn</rs>
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, says that on Sunday Night last he put up<lb></lb>
his Horse about 10 o Clock in a Stable Adjourning to the House of Mr<lb></lb>
Greeves a Pawnbroker in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo640">Wych Street</rs>
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, which Stable belongs to this<lb></lb>
Informant, says that on the monday morning following about half<lb></lb>
an hour past three o Clock he heard an alarm of fire, says he then<lb></lb>
went to the aforesaid Stable and<del>he</del>
saw the said Stable on fire says<lb></lb>
he then assisted in endeavouring to Put the said fire out, which was<lb></lb>
compleated in about half an Hour, says he found<del>two</del>
the two bundles<lb></lb>
of Matches now Produced, in the said Stable, and further says he<lb></lb>
doth verily believe that the said Stable had been wilfully set on<lb></lb>
fire, says that when he put up his horse as aforesaid he had a<lb></lb>
Candle in a Lanthorn, but never took the Candle out of said Lanthorn</p>
<p n="1740">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
May 23d. 1770}</p>
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<p n="1742">M Allmond</p>
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