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<p n="805"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo488">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n805-1">Edward Chapman</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo489">Foxton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo490">Leicester</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ155">Grazier</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 10th. day of May 1781.</p>
<p n="806">Who being on Oath says that last night between 11 and 12 o'Clock<lb></lb>
he was met near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo491">Temple</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ156">Bar</rs>
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by a Woman now present who calls<lb></lb>
herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n806-1">Ann Johnson</rs>
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with whom he went to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo492">Talbot Inn<lb></lb>
in the Strand</rs>
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to sleep. That before they went to Bed and after<lb></lb>
they had bolted the door, he perceived that he had in his<lb></lb>
breeches Pocket two Guineas, a Half Crown piece and one<lb></lb>
Shilling; and when he arose this Morning he missed the<lb></lb>
two Guineas and is very sure that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n806-2">Ann Johnson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
feloniously stole the same as no other Person was in<lb></lb>
the room from the time of their going to bed when he<lb></lb>
had the two Guineas, to the time of his getting up<lb></lb>
when he missed them.</p>
<p n="807">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
10th. day of March 1781.}</p>
<p n="808"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n808-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="809"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n809-1">Edwd Chapman</rs>
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