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to Wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n745-1">Thomas Thompson</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n745-3">John Shelly</rs>
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Owner of<lb></lb>
the Kendal Waggons taken before me this 18th. day of<lb></lb>
May 1781</p>
<p n="746">Who being upon Oath says, that last Night about 9 o Clock<lb></lb>
a person now present who calls herself Diana Groves asked this Informant<lb></lb>
(who was then in the One Shilling Gallery of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo457">Drury Lane</rs>
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Theatre) to go<lb></lb>
with her-Says that he went with her to a Public House, which<lb></lb>
he cannot recollect. and had at that time ten Guineas in his Pocket<lb></lb>
That they drank some Wine at said House & soon afterwards she<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n746-1">Diana Groves</rs>
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left him, that immediately after she was gone<lb></lb>
he missed four Guineas out of his Pocket and doth verily believe<lb></lb>
that the said Diana Groves robbed him of the Same</p>
<p n="747">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
18th.. day of May 1781}</p>
<p n="748">W Addington</p>
<p n="749"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n749-1">Thomas Thompson</rs>
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