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The Information of
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Mary Brooks
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Hannah Hitchin
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taken before me this 21st.
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day of February 1783.
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Who being on Oath say and first the said
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Daniel Goddard
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says
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that on a Friday in the Month of January last, he was sent from
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the Castle and Taken in Aldergate Street with a Box directed
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to
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Thos. Hitchin
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in
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Bridge Street Westminster
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. That when he
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came to Mr. Hitchin's door with the Box, a Person now present
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who calls himself
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Samuel Read
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was there standing with
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a Pen stack in his hair. That said Read said to this Informant
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You bring that Box from
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the Castle and Falcon
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for Mr. Hitchin
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and it comes from Brimingham " this Informant replied Yes.
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Said Read the said "give me the Box I belong to Mr. Hitchin
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and an his Clork when this Informant observed to him. That he did not know him and should
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therefore take it in
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whereupon said Read replied "damn ye give the Box to me I am going in and will pay you for
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it." That this Informant delivered said Box to the said Read,
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who paid this Informant Gd. and then went in with it.
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And the said
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Mary Brooks
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says that she was in said
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Thomas Hitchin
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's Shop at the time the said Box was brought
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in, and is very sure that
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Samuel Read
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now present
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was the person who brought in said Box and that after
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wards run out of the Shop with it again. And the said
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Hannah Hitchin
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says that she is the Wife of said
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Thomas
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Hitchin
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and was in her Shop at the time said Box was
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brought in, and does verily that said
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Samuel Read
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is
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the Man who brought it in. That when said Read
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brought in said Box. he asked this Informant if Mr. Jones
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lived there". this Informant replied that Mr. Jones did live
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there but the Shop was Mr Hitchins's. That said Read
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