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<p n="208"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo144">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n208-1">James Tillier</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 31st. day of March 1773</p>
<p n="209">Who being upon Oath says that in the Evening of last Shrove<lb></lb>
Sunday his Barn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo145">Harmsworth</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo146">Middlesex</rs>
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containing a<lb></lb>
Quantity of Barley was wilfully set on fire and burnt down together<lb></lb>
with part of the said Barley, that on the said Sunday a<lb></lb>
person now present who calls himself James Witnell applied<lb></lb>
as a Pauper to the Vestry of the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo147">Harmsworth</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
them to provide a House for him to live in that the Vestry agreed<lb></lb>
to let him and his family live in a Room in one of the plans houses<lb></lb>
in the said Parish and this Informant told the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n209-1">James<lb></lb>
Witnell</rs>
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which was the Room appointed for him, that the said<lb></lb>
James Witnell replied he would not live in that Room and<lb></lb>
that this Informant was spiteful to him and that he would<lb></lb>
be as spiteful to this Informant or that he would seek his<lb></lb>
Revenge or Words to that Effect, and this Informant says<lb></lb>
that he does suspect that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n209-2">James Witnell</rs>
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did feloniously<lb></lb>
set fire to his said Barn, and further that he does verily believe<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n209-3">James Witnell</rs>
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will do or cause to be done some bodily<lb></lb>
harm to him this Informant</p>
<p n="210">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
31st. March 1773}</p>
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<p n="212"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n212-1">James Tillyer</rs>
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