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<p n="2436"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo973">Middlesex</rs>
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&<lb></lb>
Westmr.}<lb></lb>
to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2436-1">John Head</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before<del>the two</del>
of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace for the said<lb></lb>
County City and Liberty</p>
<p n="2437">Who being upon Oath saith that he is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45022_occ485">Watchman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo974">Brownlow Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo975">Parish of Saint Giles in the<lb></lb>
fields</rs>
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that between one & two oClock on Tuesday Morng<lb></lb>
last he met in the Person now present who calls<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2437-1">Jane Kelly</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo976">Old Bolton Street</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
Complained to this Informant that she was locked out of<lb></lb>
her Lodgings & bagged this Informant would let her sit<lb></lb>
in his Watch Box to which he consented and went along<lb></lb>
with her that upon being therein together some familiarly<lb></lb>
passed between them when this Informant had his<lb></lb>
Breeches Pocket Picked of an Old Leather Glove containg<lb></lb>
therein One Guinea & a half in Gold that this Informt<lb></lb>
is very certain that the said Glove with the Gold therein<lb></lb>
was in his Pocket when he went into his Watch,<lb></lb>
Box with the said Jane Kelly and that he missed<lb></lb>
the same presently after she was gone which was<lb></lb>
in about ten Minutes she the pretending to be in a<lb></lb>
great hurry to get away & that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
no other person<lb></lb>
whatsoever was near this Informant during the<lb></lb>
said time</p>
<p n="2438">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45022_date215">8th. Day of June 1774</rs>
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<p n="2439"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2439-1">Jno. Machin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2439-2">Geo. Reid</rs>
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<p n="2440">John Head</p>
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