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<p n="2713"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2049">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2713-1">William Thompson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ780">Shopman</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2713-2">John Noble</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2713-3">Tavis tock</rs>
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Street Mercer taken<lb></lb>
before me this 17th. day of October 1783.</p>
<p n="2714">Who being on Oath same that this Afternoon between 3 and 4<lb></lb>
o'Clock, two persons now present who calls themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2714-1">Martha<lb></lb>
Martin</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2714-2">Ann Taylor</rs>
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came into his Master's Shop together<lb></lb>
That they desired to took at some Made which he shewed them;<lb></lb>
and One Yard of which they bought and paid for together with five<lb></lb>
Nails of Persian, That whilst this Informant Stopped a ride to<lb></lb>
fetch the Yard, he thought he observed the said Martin conceal<lb></lb>
Something but what he could not tell That when they had<lb></lb>
left the shop he communicated his Suspicions to his Master<lb></lb>
who proposed bringing them back That this Informant and his<lb></lb>
said Master accordingly went after them and brought them back,<lb></lb>
and upon their being told that they ever suspected of having taken<lb></lb>
something, the said Martin put the Piece of Calimanco now<lb></lb>
produced (the Property of his said Master) down upon the<lb></lb>
Compter.</p>
<p n="2715">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
17th. day of October 1783<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2715-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="2716"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2716-1">William Thompson</rs>
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