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<p n="1462"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1097">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1462-1">Mark Fairhurst</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1462-2">John<lb></lb>
Tree</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1462-3">William Bowyer</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 7th: day of May 1783</p>
<p n="1463">Who being on Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1463-1">Mark<lb></lb>
Fairhurst</rs>
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says that he keeps Sleep for <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1463-2">John Messenger</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1098">Paddington</rs>
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Farmer in a Field at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1099">Paddington</rs>
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That<lb></lb>
on Friday Night he lift about sixty Sheep safe in said Field<lb></lb>
and the next morning missed one by finding the Skin in<lb></lb>
a Pond near the Field in which said Sheep were kept<lb></lb>
That on searching said Skin he found the Gutts Liver<lb></lb>
Lights & Head therein, but not the Heart on FatThat<lb></lb>
on comparing the Head and Nick of said Sheep with<lb></lb>
the Mutton shewn to him by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1463-3">John Tree</rs>
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, he doth<lb></lb>
verily<del>it</del>
believe it to be the Sheep which was so stolen<lb></lb>
as aforesaidAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1463-4">John Tree</rs>
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says that he<del>is</del>
Collects<lb></lb>
Tolls at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1100">Tyburn Turnpike</rs>
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That on Saturday morning last<lb></lb>
about 2 oClock the Bag now produced was put into the Toll<lb></lb>
House, but by whom he cannot tell, That about seven<lb></lb>
oClock the same morning a person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1463-5">William Chadborne</rs>
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came to him and asked for<lb></lb>
said Bag saying that he had lift it in the Toll House<lb></lb>
That he asked said Chadborne what he had got in said<lb></lb>
Bag when he Replied "That what was there, was his own<lb></lb>
Property, and that this Informant had nothing to do with<lb></lb>
it" That he this Informant then searched said Bag<lb></lb>
in which he found two Breasts a Neck and Quantity<lb></lb>
of Mutton Fat on which he secured himAnd the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1463-6">William Bowyer</rs>
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says that he searched the said<lb></lb>
William Chad borne at the <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n1463-7">Brown Bear</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1101">Bow Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1102">Covent Garden</rs>
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on Saturday morning last and found in his<lb></lb>
Pocket the Heart and Tail of a Sheep and a Knife</p>
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