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<p n="50"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo23">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n50-1">William Finch</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n50-2">John Bond</rs>
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Taken and made before me one of<lb></lb>
his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45025_occ14">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
said County the seventh day of October<lb></lb>
1782.</p>
<p n="51">These Informants say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n51-1">William Finch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself Saith That in the night of the Twenty Eighth day<lb></lb>
of September last the Dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n51-2">John Coster</rs>
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Situate<lb></lb>
at Bowes Farm in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo24">Parish of Edmonton</rs>
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in the said County<lb></lb>
was broke open by some person or persons unknown to this<lb></lb>
Informant and one pair of Leather Boots one pair of Leather<lb></lb>
shoes<del>Eleven</del>
several Linnen Childs frocks and sundry other things<lb></lb>
his property was stolen therefrom and further saith That<lb></lb>
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a pair of Leather Boots one pair of Leather shoes<del>and</del>
and<lb></lb>
several Childs Frocks now produced and shewn to him are the<lb></lb>
same things that were stolen from the said house<lb></lb>
And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n51-4">John Bond</rs>
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Saith that he was on the<lb></lb>
Evening of the Twenty eighth day of September last a Patrole<lb></lb>
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near the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo25">Green Lane</rs>
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Turnpike in the Parish of Tattenham in<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo26">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and that about Three o'Clock in<lb></lb>
the Morning he saw<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a Cart with one horse coming on<lb></lb>
the road leading from a place called Bowes Farm towards<lb></lb>
London with four men in it<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
and this Informant suspecting they was bad people he Enquired<lb></lb>
who or what they were upon which they produced a bagg and<lb></lb>
sayd it was Linnen and gave it into this Informants hands and<lb></lb>
he carried it into the Turnpike house desiring at the same time<del>that</del>
<lb></lb>
that the men would come out of the Cart and see the bag searched,<lb></lb>
they came out of the Cart immediately and ran off towards<lb></lb>
Bowes Farm leaving<del>a</del>
the Cart and horse, Bundle, two Cutlasses<lb></lb>
and two Iron Crows behind their And further Saith that the<lb></lb>
Bundle Iron Crows and Cutlasses now produced on the<lb></lb>
Examination are the same things as were left in the Cart<lb></lb>
as above set forth And further saith That <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n51-5">John Matton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now under Examination is one of the four persons who was<lb></lb>
in the Cart and had in his Custody the above mentioned property</p>
<p n="52">W Finch</p>
<p n="53">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n53-1">John Bond</rs>
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<p n="54">Taken and Sworn the<lb></lb>
day and Year abovesaid<lb></lb>
before}</p>
<p n="55"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n55-1">D Wilmot</rs>
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