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<p n="1930"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1239">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1930-1">Michael Tooley</rs>
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of the Parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Matthew <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1240">Bethnal Green</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1241">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ419">Weaver</rs>
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taken and made on Oath<lb></lb>
before me one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ420">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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in and for the said County the 28th. day of<lb></lb>
September 1781.</p>
<p n="1931">This Informant on his Oath saith that on Monday<lb></lb>
the 24th. day of September instant this Informant went to<lb></lb>
his<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Brother in Law James Cawson at his House in<lb></lb>
Frith Street Soho to receive some Money due to this Informant<lb></lb>
for nursing a Child of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1931-1">James Lawson</rs>
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, That he<lb></lb>
received Five Shillings of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1931-2">James Lawson</rs>
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which<lb></lb>
he out into his Waiscoat Pocket not having any Breeches<lb></lb>
Pocket, and had no other Money about him. That as<lb></lb>
this Informant was going through <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1242">Moorfields</rs>
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in his way<lb></lb>
Home from his Brother in law's he was over taken, about<lb></lb>
eleven o' Clock at night it <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1243">Moorfields</rs>
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aforesaid in the said<lb></lb>
County by one William Stairs at that time a Stronger of to<lb></lb>
this Informant who came close up of the Side of this<lb></lb>
Informant and mentioned some thing to this Informant<lb></lb>
respecting the Clock the particulars of which this Informant<lb></lb>
does not recollect. That he walked a few Steps with this<lb></lb>
Informant, when this Informant finding his Waiscoat<lb></lb>
pocket move this Informant stopped Short and found that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1931-3">William Statia</rs>
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had got his Hand in this<lb></lb>
Informant's Pocket, who on being detected by this</p>
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