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<p n="2240"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1383">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2240-1">Humphry Simmonds</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1384">High<lb></lb>
Holborn</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2240-2">John Fitzgerald</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1385">Holborn</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ483">Pawn broker</rs>
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taken before me this 6th. day of<lb></lb>
November 1781</p>
<p n="2241">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2241-1">Humphry Simmonds</rs>
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says, that a person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2241-2">John Watson</rs>
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hath lived with him as his Porter for three Weeks<lb></lb>
past-That he is very sure a silver Table Spoon now<lb></lb>
produced is his property and was feloniously stolen out of his<lb></lb>
House-And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2241-3">John Fitzgerald</rs>
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says, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2241-4">John<lb></lb>
Watson</rs>
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came this Morning to this Informants Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1386">Holborn</rs>
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aforesaid, and offered to Sell him the said Spoon; on which<lb></lb>
he took him into Custody.</p>
<p n="2242">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
6th. day of November 1781}</p>
<p n="2243">W Addington</p>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2244-2">John Fitzgerald</rs>
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