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<p n="709"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo538">Middlesex</rs>
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, to wit,</note>
The Voluntary Information of John Stan<del>hope</del>
nard<lb></lb>
Apprentice to one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n709-1">Thomas Woolaston</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo539">Poplar and Blackwall</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the said County Ship wright taken on Oath before<lb></lb>
us twoof His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ168">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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Acting in and for the said County this<lb></lb>
15th day of March 1783</p>
<p n="710">Who being upon Oath saith That about three Weeks ago<lb></lb>
he this Informant together with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n710-1">Thomas Little</rs>
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page<lb></lb>
<del>and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n710-2">Thomas Warwick</rs>
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shall now Presents</del>
did<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
take and Carry away<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
from his Majesty's Ship the<lb></lb>
Maidstone then and now in the Dook or Yard of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n710-3">John Perry</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n710-4">Joseph Hankey</rs>
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Esquires at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo540">Blackwall</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
in the said County<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a large Piece of Metal belonging<lb></lb>
to the Rudder of the said Ship called a Pintle<lb></lb>
being part of the Navel Stores belonging to his present<lb></lb>
Majesty <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n710-5">King George</rs>
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the third, That<del>the said</del>
one Thomas<lb></lb>
Warwicks hall did Assist in Conveying the same away<lb></lb>
in his Boat (being a Waterman) by the direction of his Mother I and Warwicks hall That he this Informant<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n710-6">Thomas Littlepage</rs>
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<del>and the said Thomas<lb></lb>
Warwicks hall</del>
did carry the said Metal Instrument<lb></lb>
to the House of the said<del>the said</del>
Jane Warwickshall in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo541">Blackwall</rs>
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<lb></lb>
aforesaid who did receive the same well knowing<lb></lb>
it to have been Stolen and did pay to him this<lb></lb>
Informant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n710-7">Thomas Little</rs>
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page the sum of<lb></lb>
Twenty three Shillings for the said Piece of Metal<lb></lb>
This Informant further saith that on Sunday last<lb></lb>
being the Ninth day of March Instant he together<lb></lb>
with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n710-8">Thomas Little</rs>
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page did take from<lb></lb>
the Rudder of his said Majesty's ship the Maidstone<lb></lb>
at the Place aforesaid one other Piece of Metal</p>
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