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<p n="3860"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1508">Middlesex</rs>
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(to wit)</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3860-1">Richard Mills</rs>
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of the Parish of<lb></lb>
Saint Paul Shadwell in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1509">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ464">Waterman</rs>
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taken before me one of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ465">Justice of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45018_date208">30th. day<lb></lb>
of September 1772</rs>
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<p n="3861">Who upon his Oath saith that he know <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3861-1">John Cook</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3861-2">Stephen<lb></lb>
Bryant</rs>
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and that this Morning between twelve and one o' Clock he<lb></lb>
was laying with his Boat at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1510">Shadwell Dock</rs>
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Stairs in the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid when the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3861-3">John Cook</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3861-4">Stephen Bryan</rs>
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got came<lb></lb>
there and getting into his Boat went therein to the Shore opposite<lb></lb>
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when the said Johns Cook and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3861-5">Stephen Bryant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
went a shore leavings this Informant in his Boat and thats the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3861-6">John Cook</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3861-7">Stephen Bryant</rs>
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did feloniously steal from a who of<lb></lb>
Three Pieces of Mahogany which they brought down and out into<lb></lb>
this Informant, Boat, And this Informant the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3861-8">John Cook</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3861-9">Stephen Bryant</rs>
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carried the said Three peices of Mahogany in the<lb></lb>
said Boat to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1512">the Hermitage</rs>
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Stairs where the same was landed<lb></lb>
And that this Informant did afterwards this Morning sell one of the<lb></lb>
said Peices of Mahogany to one George Messeroy for four Shillings<lb></lb>
being greatly under the Value thereof which said George Messeroy<lb></lb>
did feloniously buy and receive the said piece of Mahogany will<lb></lb>
knowing the same to be<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
feloniously stolen And that he has been<lb></lb>
since informed and believes the said Mahogany is the Property of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3861-10">Richard<lb></lb>
Clark</rs>
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<p n="3862">Sworn and Subscribed by the<lb></lb>
above <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3862-1">Richard Mills</rs>
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who I<lb></lb>
have admitted as an Evidences<lb></lb>
for the thing against the above<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3862-2">John Cook</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3862-3">Stephen Bryant</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3862-4">George Messeroy</rs>
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<p n="3863">B Camper</p>
<p n="3864">The mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3864-1">Richard<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Mills</rs>
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