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<p n="708"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo432">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n708-1">William Herbert</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n708-2">Hannah Onslow<lb></lb>
Barnett</rs>
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<interp inst="LMOBPS45024_n708-2" type="surname" value="Onslow Barnett"></interp>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n708-4">Elizabeth Eastgate</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this 11th. day of May 1781.</p>
<p n="709">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n709-1">William Herbert</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
on Tuesday last as this Informant was going into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo433">Opera House</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
on the Stairs of the five Shilling Gallery, a Man whom he<lb></lb>
verily believes to be a Person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n709-2">Bennett Harbourne</rs>
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put his Arm across his Neck and pushed<lb></lb>
against this Informant very hard. That when this Informant<lb></lb>
got into the three Shilling Gallery, he missed his Watch<lb></lb>
now produced; and verily believes that the said Bennett Harbourne<lb></lb>
feloniously stole it out of his fob. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n709-4">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Eastgate</rs>
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says that she was going into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo434">Opera House</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
this time with her Master Dr. Bossey, and was on the Great<lb></lb>
Steps; that her Masters pocket being picked of his Watch,<lb></lb>
she suspected a Person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n709-5">Henry<lb></lb>
Haslam</rs>
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to have taken it, which induced her to take hold<lb></lb>
of him by his Arm and charged him with stealing it.<lb></lb>
That she led him down several steps until they came<lb></lb>
near a croud of people, when she heard the Watch now<lb></lb>
produced chop on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo435">the passage</rs>
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near the said Haslam and<lb></lb>
this Informant; and does firmly believe that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n709-6">Henry<lb></lb>
Haslam</rs>
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dropped it. And the said Hannah Onslow<lb></lb>
Barnett says that she was in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo436">Opera House</rs>
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Passage<lb></lb>
at this time and saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n709-8">Elizabeth Eastgate</rs>
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leading</p>
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