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<p n="322"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo214">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n322-1">William Sheldon</rs>
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of No. 2 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo215">Exeter<lb></lb>
Court in the Strand Shagreen</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ54">Can maker</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n322-2">William<lb></lb>
Morley</rs>
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taken before me this 29th. day of March 1781</p>
<p n="323">Who being upon oath say, and For it the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n323-1">William Sheldon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself says that a Quantity of Leaden Pipe now produced is his<lb></lb>
property and was affixed to his Dwelling house in Exeter Court aforesaid<lb></lb>
between the hours of nine and ten o Clock this morning; and that<lb></lb>
in about an hour and a half afterwards the said Lead was taken<lb></lb>
away and some part of it put into his Dust Hole and the other<lb></lb>
part lying in a Cellar where he found itAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n323-2">William<lb></lb>
Morley</rs>
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for himself says that about ½ past 11 o Clock this Morning<lb></lb>
he saw a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n323-3">William Winter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
come from out of his Fathers house where he was sweeping<lb></lb>
a Chimney and go along <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo216">the Passage</rs>
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of the house of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n323-4">William Sheldon</rs>
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That he continued in said Sheldon house<lb></lb>
about a Quarter of an hour and then returned to this Informants<lb></lb>
Fathers house againAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n323-5">Willliam Sheldon</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
says that from the above Circumstances he is very sure that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n323-6">William Winter</rs>
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is the person that feloniously stole<lb></lb>
his said Lead</p>
<p n="324">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
29th. day of March 1781}<lb></lb>
W Addington</p>
<p n="325"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n325-1">William Sheldon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n325-2">Willm. Morley</rs>
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