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<p n="2401"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1823">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2401-1">William Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2401-2">Elizabeth Dalby</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2401-3">Ann Straffon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2401-4">Thomas Harwood</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2401-5">John Pitt</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2401-6">Samuel Fox</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this 30th. day of Septemr. 1783.</p>
<p n="2402">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2402-1">William Thomas</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself says that he is Servant to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2402-2">Eleanor Baynes</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1824">Hampstead</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
That between 10 and 11 o'Clock at Night on Monday the 22nd. Inst.<lb></lb>
he fastened the Window of the Puntry belonging to his said<lb></lb>
Mistresses House, Previous to his going to Bed. And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2402-3">Elizabeth Dalby</rs>
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says that she is also Servant to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2402-4">Eleanor<lb></lb>
Baynes</rs>
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and that when she got up on the following Mornings<lb></lb>
which was a little after 4 o'Clock, she perceived that the Pantry<lb></lb>
Window had been taken out, and the Wash house robbed of<lb></lb>
a Quantity of Wet Linen now produced, part of which<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
property of this Informant. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2402-5">Ann Straffon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that the whole of the Linen now produced is the<lb></lb>
Property of this Informant the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2402-6">Eleanor Baynes</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2402-7">Elizabeth Dalby</rs>
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, and was feloniously stolen in the Wash house<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2402-8">Eleanor Baynes</rs>
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's house on Monday Night the 22nd.<lb></lb>
Inst. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2402-9">Thomas Harwood</rs>
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says that a little past<lb></lb>
6 o'Clock in the Morning of Tuesday the 23d. Inst. he saw a Man<lb></lb>
in a pourpadour coloured Coat in his Master's Field at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1825">Cold Bath Fields</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
and a Woman at some little distance form him. That this<lb></lb>
Informant told said Man that there was no Thorough fare<lb></lb>
in said Fields but said Man still kept on and picked up<lb></lb>
a Bundle, shortly after which another Man joined him. That<lb></lb>
upon this Informant pursuing said two Men they ran off (and as<lb></lb>
this Informant believes) gave said Woman two Bundle. That this<lb></lb>
Informant afterwards followed said Woman and upon being informed<lb></lb>
by Elizabeth Hay cock, that said Woman had thrown two Bundles<lb></lb>
over some Railing which she had passed, he turned back and</p>
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