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<p n="92"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo55">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n92-1">Richard Barnell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45019_occ18">one the Constables</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo56">Saint<lb></lb>
Anne Westminster</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
One of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45019_occ19">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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for the said County</p>
<p n="93">Who being upon Oath saith that on Friday<lb></lb>
Morning last about 9'o Clock two persons now<lb></lb>
present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n93-1">John Griffin</rs>
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and Amey<lb></lb>
Mason were offering to sale in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo57">Crown Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the parish of Saint Anne to several persons<lb></lb>
a large Boiling Copper now produced and this Informt<lb></lb>
suspected the same to have been stolen upon<lb></lb>
which he apprehended the said two persons and<lb></lb>
carried them before the Magistrates at the Rotation<lb></lb>
Office in Little field Street and upon their Examination<lb></lb>
before Mr Welch who was the sitting Magistrates<lb></lb>
they both sayd that the said Copper was given<lb></lb>
to them by the Father of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n93-2">John Griffin</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
was a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45019_occ20">Fisherman</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo58">Strand on the Green</rs>
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near<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo59">Brentford</rs>
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upon which this Informant was ordered<lb></lb>
by the said Magistrate to go to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo60">Strand on the Green</rs>
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<lb></lb>
which he did & upon enquiry there found that the<lb></lb>
Father had not given them the said Copper & was<lb></lb>
a very poor Man in the Workhouses. this Informant<lb></lb>
when the returned which was on the Friday afternoon<lb></lb>
went to the said Arney Mason & she told him<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n93-3">John Griffiths</rs>
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& she had stolen the<lb></lb>
said Copper out of an unhabited House near the<lb></lb>
Widow Broom fields on Shoreham Hill in Kent<lb></lb>
this Informant went down to the said place on<lb></lb>
Saturday last & found the place from whence the<lb></lb>
said Copper was taken which by the description<lb></lb>
this Informant gave to one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n93-4">John Snell</rs>
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a Franner<lb></lb>
at Shoreham Hill it is his properly but this<lb></lb>
Informant further saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n93-5">John Snell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
seems a very Old & Infirm Man & very Lame<lb></lb>
& told this Informant that he was very near Eighty</p>
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