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<p n="2652"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1996">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2652-1">John Grayson</rs>
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of No.145.<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1997">Fleet Street</rs>
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Pawn broker- <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2652-2">Michel<lb></lb>
Donaty</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2652-3">Petticoat Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ762">Dealer</rs>
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& Chapmen<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2652-4">John clark</rs>
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taken before me this<lb></lb>
3rd. day of October 1783.</p>
<p n="2653">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2653-1">John Grayson</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that on the 14 of August last he sold the Brace of Pistols now<lb></lb>
produced for £1..7..0 to a Person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2653-2">Alexander Kennedy</rs>
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as he verily believes, who at<lb></lb>
that time was dressed in a Blue Coat with a red collar and<lb></lb>
his hair hanging loose. And the said Michael Donaty<lb></lb>
says that he lives with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2653-3">Henry Lee</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ763">Silversmith</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1998">Petticoat Lane</rs>
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. That on Sunday morning last about 5 oClock<lb></lb>
two Persons now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2653-4">Henry Horne</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2653-5">Alexander Kennedy</rs>
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knocked at his Masters door<lb></lb>
when Informant getup and let them in That they asked for<lb></lb>
Informants Master Informant replied that it was too soon<lb></lb>
to distant him and asked them what they wanted that Horne<lb></lb>
replied "We have a gold Trick (meaning a Watch) & 2 Rings<lb></lb>
to sell"- Informant desired them to leave them with him<lb></lb>
until his Master get up and to call again in about two<lb></lb>
hours- That Horne gave this Informant the Watch, his seals,<lb></lb>
watch Key. Hook and two Rings now produced and then both<lb></lb>
went away. That an about an hour and half afterwards the<lb></lb>
said Horne and Kennedy returned again when this Informants<lb></lb>
called up his Master who came down whom Horne asked<lb></lb>
Twenty Guineas for the whole. That Informants Master bid him four<lb></lb>
Guineas and afterwards four Guineas and half which they took<lb></lb>
and then went away. That said Kennedy at this time was<lb></lb>
dressed in a Blue Coat with a red collar and his Hair hunging<lb></lb>
loose in his neck and that Horne was dressed in a high</p>
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