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<p n="8"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo5">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of Hannah<lb></lb>
Wife of Joseph Merchant. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n8-3">Joseph Merchant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Robert Hicksman<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
George Royston<lb></lb>
and Mary Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n8-6">Alexander Lesley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me one of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace for the said County</p>
<p n="9">Who being severally upon their Oaths respectively do<lb></lb>
say and first these Informants Hannah and Joseph<lb></lb>
Merchant for themselves say that a person now present<lb></lb>
who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n9-2">Jane Lesley</rs>
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did Feloniously Steal<lb></lb>
& take & Carry away a Pair of large Silver Shoe Buckles<lb></lb>
& a Red Cloth Clock now produced the property of the said<lb></lb>
Joseph Merchant and being at the Value of Twenty Shillings</p>
<p n="10">And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n10-6">Robert Hicksman</rs>
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for himself saith<lb></lb>
that he is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ5">Pawn broker</rs>
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& that a Person now present who<lb></lb>
calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n10-1">Charlotte Jones</rs>
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on the 12th. of December<lb></lb>
Instant pawned the large pair of Silver Shoe Buckles<lb></lb>
now produced and Sworn to be the property of the other<lb></lb>
Informant Joseph Merchant for the Sum of Six<lb></lb>
Shillings & Six pence & he at the time of her pawning then<lb></lb>
gave her no Duplicate but on the next day the said Charlotte<lb></lb>
Jones came in Company with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n10-4">Ann Lynch</rs>
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and another<lb></lb>
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young woman & took a Duplicate for the said<lb></lb>
Buckles in the Name of Ann Lynch</p>
<p n="11">And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n11-1">George Royston</rs>
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for himself saith<lb></lb>
that he is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ6">Servant</rs>
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to Mr<obscured></obscured>
Pawn broker in Holborn<lb></lb>
that on the 13th. of December instant a Person now<lb></lb>
present who calls herself Ann Lynch came to his<lb></lb>
Masters Shop in Company with another young Woman<lb></lb>
who is not yet apprehended and Pawned the Red Cloth<lb></lb>
Clock now produced and Sworn to be the property of the<lb></lb>
said Joseph Merchant for four Shillings & Six pences</p>
<p n="12">And this Informant Mary Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n12-1">Alexander Lesley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for herself saith that the day before Yesterday the person<lb></lb>
now present who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n12-2">Jane Lessley</rs>
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Sold to this<lb></lb>
informant the Duplicate of the Pair of Silver Shoe buckles<lb></lb>
now produced for two Shillings.</p>
<p n="13">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45023_date4">14th. day of December 1774</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n13-1">Jno. Lane</rs>
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</p>
<p n="14"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n14-1">Joseph Merchant</rs>
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</p>
<p n="15">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n15-1">Hannah Merchant</rs>
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Mark</p>
<p n="16">Robt. Hicksman<lb></lb>
Geo<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Royston</p>
<p n="17">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n17-1">Mary Lesley</rs>
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Mark</p>
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