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<p n="2409"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1828">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2409-1">David Richardson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1829">Wapping Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said County Slopseller <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2409-2">John Hinde</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1830">White Chapel</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1831">High<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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Fin plate Worker and<del>John Beng</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2409-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Bengough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1832">Rosemary Lane</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1833">Haberdasher</rs>
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taken before us this twenty Seventh of September1783</p>
<p n="2410">Who being on their Oaths say and First the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2410-1">David Richardson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself Saith That on the Evening of the twenty fourth day of<lb></lb>
September Inst. a Fire Happened in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1834">Wapping Street</rs>
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when the<lb></lb>
House of him this Informant together with many others was<lb></lb>
Burnt down That at the said Fire this Informant<del>has</del>
<lb></lb>
last a great Quantity of Goods Consisting of Jackets Trouser<lb></lb>
Check Shirts and other Articles of Slop Work besides what<lb></lb>
were Burned in the said Fire That the Several Articles<lb></lb>
or Goods now produced by the other Informant the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2410-3">John Hinde</rs>
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<lb></lb>
consisting of Seven Blue Common Jackets Two Large Blue<lb></lb>
Jackets,<del>Nine</del>
seven White Flannel Jackets, Six pair of Breeches<lb></lb>
Twelve Canvas Trousers, Twelve Checked Shirts, one Marble<lb></lb>
Flannel Waistcoat, and one piece of Brown Stuff, are the<lb></lb>
Property of him this Informant and were taken away from<lb></lb>
his said House at the time of the said Fire That he<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<del>clear and positive</del>
believes that he saw the person now present<lb></lb>
who says his Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2410-5">Walter Batley</rs>
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with others very<lb></lb>
Active about this Informants House at the same<lb></lb>
time</p>
<p n="2411">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2411-1">John Hinde</rs>
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for himself saith that in the<lb></lb>
night of the said 24th day of September between the<lb></lb>
Hours of twelve and one having been to see the aforesaid<lb></lb>
Fire and returning home, near the End of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1835">Virginia Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1836">Ratcliff Highway</rs>
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in Company with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2411-2">Thomas Sayer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
he saw a person pass him with a large Bag or<lb></lb>
Bundle. That on a Cry of Stop Thief he this Informant<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2411-3">Thomas Sayer</rs>
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pursued said person with<lb></lb>
the sd. Bagor Bundle and came up with him in Neptune Street<lb></lb>
near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1837">Wellclose square</rs>
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, where they laid hold of and<lb></lb>
took him into Custody. That on<del>his being</del>
their seizing<lb></lb>
hold of him he Dropped or let fall the said Bundle<lb></lb>
which he this Informant at that time left in the Street<lb></lb>
in the care of one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2411-4">Thomas Bengough</rs>
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. That the<del>said</del>
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