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<p n="3386"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo1324">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n3386-1">Joseph Smith</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
6th. day of October 1773</p>
<p n="3387">Who being upon Oath says that this day was two weeks this Informant<lb></lb>
want to the house of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n3387-1">James Cathbert</rs>
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now present to take a Lodging<lb></lb>
that he there saw two Firkins of Butter, that this Informant ask<obscured></obscured>
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said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n3387-2">Cuthbert how</rs>
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he came by them, that Cuthbert answered a man<lb></lb>
who had kept a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45019_occ530">Chandlers Shop</rs>
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was in trouble and that he was<lb></lb>
authorized to Sell them, that this Informant told him he<lb></lb>
believed the said Firkins of Butter belonged to a Neighbour of this<lb></lb>
Informants on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo1325">Saffron Hill</rs>
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and were Stolen, that said Cuthbert<lb></lb>
then said he would dispose of them as soon as Possible<lb></lb>
otherwise they might be the means of his being Ruined</p>
<p n="3388">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
Octr 6 1773}</p>
<p n="3389">T Smith</p>
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