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The Information of
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one the Constables
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of the Parish of
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taken before me
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One of his Majestys
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Justices of the
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for the said County
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Who being upon Oath saith that on Friday
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Morning last about 9'o Clock two persons now
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present who call themselves
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John Griffin
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and Amey
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Mason were offering to sale in
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Crown Street
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in the parish of Saint Anne to several persons
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a large Boiling Copper now produced and this Informt
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suspected the same to have been stolen upon
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which he apprehended the said two persons and
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carried them before the Magistrates at the Rotation
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Office in Little field Street and upon their Examination
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before Mr Welch who was the sitting Magistrates
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they both sayd that the said Copper was given
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to them by the Father of the said
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who
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was a
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Fisherman
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at
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Strand on the Green
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upon which this Informant was ordered
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by the said Magistrate to go to
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which he did & upon enquiry there found that the
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Father had not given them the said Copper & was
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a very poor Man in the Workhouses. this Informant
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when the returned which was on the Friday afternoon
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went to the said Arney Mason & she told him
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that the said
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John Griffiths
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& she had stolen the
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said Copper out of an unhabited House near the
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Widow Broom fields on Shoreham Hill in Kent
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this Informant went down to the said place on
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Saturday last & found the place from whence the
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said Copper was taken which by the description
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this Informant gave to one
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John Snell
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a Franner
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at Shoreham Hill it is his properly but this
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Informant further saith that the said
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John Snell
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seems a very Old & Infirm Man & very Lame
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& told this Informant that he was very near Eighty
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