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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2939-1">John Broughton</rs>
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brought<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2939-2">William Addington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ605">Esquire</rs>
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one of<lb></lb>
his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ606">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and<lb></lb>
for the said County on Suspicion of having<lb></lb>
stolen a great Coat the property of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2939-3">John<lb></lb>
Morgan</rs>
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Esquire, taken before<obscured></obscured>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45023_date209">5th.<lb></lb>
December 1745</rs>
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<p n="2940">This Examinant saith that he is one of the Patroling Watchmen in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1741">Parish of St. Andrew</rs>
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Holborn, that on Friday Night last near<lb></lb>
an Oil Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1742">Hatton Garden</rs>
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he and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2940-1">Richard Roberts</rs>
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met a Man with a Bundle which<lb></lb>
proved to be that Coat in Question, and upon attempting to Stop the<lb></lb>
said Man he threw down the Coat and ran away; and the Said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2940-2">Richard Roberts</rs>
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picked it up it being then tied in an Apron<lb></lb>
but at what hour this happened he cannot tell</p>
<p n="2941">Taken before me<lb></lb>
Decemr. 5. 1775}</p>
<p n="2942">W Addington</p>
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