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The Information of
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of
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& Chapmen
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John clark
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taken before me this
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3rd. day of October 1783.
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Who being on Oath say and first the said
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says
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that on the 14 of August last he sold the Brace of Pistols now
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produced for £1..7..0 to a Person now present who calls
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himself
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Alexander Kennedy
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as he verily believes, who at
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that time was dressed in a Blue Coat with a red collar and
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his hair hanging loose. And the said Michael Donaty
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says that he lives with
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Henry Lee
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a
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Silversmith
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. That on Sunday morning last about 5 oClock
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two Persons now present who call themselves
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Henry Horne
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Alexander Kennedy
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knocked at his Masters door
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when Informant getup and let them in That they asked for
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Informants Master Informant replied that it was too soon
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to distant him and asked them what they wanted that Horne
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replied "We have a gold Trick (meaning a Watch) & 2 Rings
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to sell"- Informant desired them to leave them with him
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until his Master get up and to call again in about two
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hours- That Horne gave this Informant the Watch, his seals,
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watch Key. Hook and two Rings now produced and then both
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went away. That an about an hour and half afterwards the
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said Horne and Kennedy returned again when this Informants
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called up his Master who came down whom Horne asked
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Twenty Guineas for the whole. That Informants Master bid him four
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Guineas and afterwards four Guineas and half which they took
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and then went away. That said Kennedy at this time was
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dressed in a Blue Coat with a red collar and his Hair hunging
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loose in his neck and that Horne was dressed in a high
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