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<p n="1012"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo633">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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The Information <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1012-5">Margaret Bowker</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ213">Servant</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1012-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Harrison</rs>
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of the Harrison's Hotel in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo634">Covent Garden</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1012-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Harrison</rs>
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aforesaidand <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1012-3">Peter Patmore</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo635">Ludgate Hill</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ214">Pawn broker</rs>
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taken before me this 4th.. day of June 1781.</p>
<p n="1013">Who being upon Oath say, and first said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1013-1">Margaret Bowker</rs>
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says, that about 12 o Clock in the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
forenoon of last Friday was a Week<lb></lb>
she saw a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1013-2">James Watts</rs>
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coming down<lb></lb>
stairs from a two pair of stairs Room where she believes the said Watts<lb></lb>
had lain the Night precedingSays that about 8 oClock the said<lb></lb>
Evening, when she went into said Room, to shut the Windows, she saw<lb></lb>
a Counterpane and one Sheet now produced and as she do doth verily<lb></lb>
believe another Sheet also now produced upon said Bed and a<lb></lb>
Pillow CaseThat about ten Minutes after said Watts was gone<lb></lb>
out of House; <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1013-3">Thomas Beal</rs>
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the Waiter asked her, if she had seen<lb></lb>
the Man go out, that had lain there that Night (meaning said Watts)<lb></lb>
and said that he had stolen the<del>said</del>
Counterpane Sheets and Pillow Case;<lb></lb>
on which she examined the Room, and found that they were stolenThe<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1013-4">Thomas Harrison</rs>
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says, that hearing the said Watts was in Custody<lb></lb>
he applied to him, to know what he had done with them, when<lb></lb>
said Watts confessed he had stolen them, and said he had pawned<lb></lb>
with them with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1013-5">Peter Patmore</rs>
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. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1013-6">Peter Patmore</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that the said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Watts pawned said Counterpane and pair of<lb></lb>
Sheets with him on Friday the 25th. of May last for One pounds four shillings</p>
<p n="1014">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1014-1">Margaret<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Bowker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="1015"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1015-1">Thos. Harrison</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1015-2">Peter Patmore</rs>
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<p n="1016">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
4th. day of June 1781}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1016-1">Sampr Wright</rs>
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