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<p n="503"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo385">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n503-1">Daniel Goddard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n503-2">Mary Brooks</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n503-3">Hannah Hitchin</rs>
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taken before me this 21st.<lb></lb>
day of February 1783.</p>
<p n="504">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n504-1">Daniel Goddard</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that on a Friday in the Month of January last, he was sent from<lb></lb>
the Castle and Taken in Aldergate Street with a Box directed<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n504-2">Thos. Hitchin</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo386">Bridge Street Westminster</rs>
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. That when he<lb></lb>
came to Mr. Hitchin's door with the Box, a Person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n504-3">Samuel Read</rs>
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was there standing with<lb></lb>
a Pen stack in his hair. That said Read said to this Informant<lb></lb>
You bring that Box from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo387">the Castle and Falcon</rs>
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for Mr. Hitchin<lb></lb>
and it comes from Brimingham " this Informant replied Yes.<lb></lb>
Said Read the said "give me the Box I belong to Mr. Hitchin<lb></lb>
and an his Clork when this Informant observed to him. That he did not know him and should<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
therefore take it in<obscured></obscured>
whereupon said Read replied "damn ye give the Box to me I am going in and will pay you for<lb></lb>
it." That this Informant delivered said Box to the said Read,<lb></lb>
who paid this Informant Gd. and then went in with it.<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n504-4">Mary Brooks</rs>
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says that she was in said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n504-5">Thomas Hitchin</rs>
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's Shop at the time the said Box was brought<lb></lb>
in, and is very sure that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n504-6">Samuel Read</rs>
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now present<lb></lb>
was the person who brought in said Box and that after<lb></lb>
wards run out of the Shop with it again. And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n504-7">Hannah Hitchin</rs>
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says that she is the Wife of said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n504-8">Thomas<lb></lb>
Hitchin</rs>
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and was in her Shop at the time said Box was<lb></lb>
brought in, and does verily that said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n504-9">Samuel Read</rs>
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is<lb></lb>
the Man who brought it in. That when said Read<lb></lb>
brought in said Box. he asked this Informant if Mr. Jones<lb></lb>
lived there". this Informant replied that Mr. Jones did live<lb></lb>
there but the Shop was Mr Hitchins's. That said Read</p>
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