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The Information of Hannah
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George Royston
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taken before me one of his Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace for the said County
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Who being severally upon their Oaths respectively do
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say and first these Informants Hannah and Joseph
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Merchant for themselves say that a person now present
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did Feloniously Steal
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& take & Carry away a Pair of large Silver Shoe Buckles
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& a Red Cloth Clock now produced the property of the said
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Joseph Merchant and being at the Value of Twenty Shillings
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Robert Hicksman
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Charlotte Jones
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on the 12th. of December
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Instant pawned the large pair of Silver Shoe Buckles
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now produced and Sworn to be the property of the other
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Informant Joseph Merchant for the Sum of Six
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Shillings & Six pence & he at the time of her pawning then
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gave her no Duplicate but on the next day the said Charlotte
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Jones came in Company with
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young woman & took a Duplicate for the said
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Buckles in the Name of Ann Lynch
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George Royston
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to Mr
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Pawn broker in Holborn
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that on the 13th. of December instant a Person now
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present who calls herself Ann Lynch came to his
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Masters Shop in Company with another young Woman
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who is not yet apprehended and Pawned the Red Cloth
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Clock now produced and Sworn to be the property of the
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said Joseph Merchant for four Shillings & Six pences
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Alexander Lesley
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for herself saith that the day before Yesterday the person
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Jane Lessley
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Sold to this
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informant the Duplicate of the Pair of Silver Shoe buckles
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now produced for two Shillings.
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Sworn before me the
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14th. day of December 1774
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Jno. Lane
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Joseph Merchant
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her
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Hannah Merchant
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Mark
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Robt. Hicksman
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Geo
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Mark
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