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<p n="56"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo27">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n56-1">John Thompson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n56-2">Robert Dennis</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n56-3">James Mc Manus</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n56-4">William Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n56-5">Richard Richards</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n56-6">James Lock</rs>
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,<del>and</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n56-7">Moses Murrant</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n56-8">Henry<lb></lb>
Bainbridge</rs>
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taken before me this 11th. day of<lb></lb>
October 1782.</p>
<p n="57">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n57-1">John Thompson</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that he is a Clerk to Thos. Rackett Esqr.. in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo28">King Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo29">Covent<lb></lb>
Garden</rs>
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. That in the Night of Wednesday Sevenight last the House<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n57-2">Thomas Rackett</rs>
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was burglariously broke open and<lb></lb>
a Quantity of Silver and Silk Stuffs, <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo30">Manchester</rs>
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Velverets, Red<lb></lb>
Cloth, plain Silks and other Goods now produced (the Property<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n57-3">Thomas Rackett</rs>
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) were feloniously stolen thereouts<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n57-4">Robert Dennis</rs>
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for himself says that he is a<lb></lb>
Watchman in Dukes Court Durry Lane. That about half<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Two o'Clock in the Morning of Thursday Sevenight, three<lb></lb>
Men passed him in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo31">Drury Lane</rs>
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one of whom had a Bundle<lb></lb>
on his Shoulder and is very sure that a Person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n57-5">Samuel Davis</rs>
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is the mentioned person<lb></lb>
who carried the said Bundle. And the said James Mc. Manus<lb></lb>
for himself says that he is a Watchman in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo32">Drury Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
That he observed the said three Men come down <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo33">Drury Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at half past Two o'Clock on the aforesaid Thursday Morning<lb></lb>
two of whom had Bundles. That they knocked gently at the<lb></lb>
Door of Lock's home the Butcher in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo34">Drury Lane</rs>
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which was<lb></lb>
opened by a Woman and they went in. That on this Infor-<lb></lb>
-mant being told by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n57-7">William Jones</rs>
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that they were<lb></lb>
House breakers, this Informant knocked at Lock's door<lb></lb>
with his Staff and found it open-that he rung his<lb></lb>
Rattle for other Watchmen upon whose coming this</p>
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