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THE Information of
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Taken this. second Day of October one thousand seven hundred & eighty three before me
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Peter Greene
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one
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of his Majesty's
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in and for the County.
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Who being upon Oath Saith that upon Thursday the twenty fifth day
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of September last between the hours of five and Six o' clock in
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the Evening of the same day, an Hatt of the Value of Sixteen Shillings,
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and intirely now from the Shop was brought to him by a Persons
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who appeared to be a
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now here present and who
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aws himself over Gibson in order to have such Hatt
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cooked and Cooped, and Who left the said Hatt with this Informant
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for such purpose :That this Informant having a strong
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suspicion that such Hatt was stolen, made Enquiring among
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several Master Hatters, Whether or not any of them had lost
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such a Hatt, when one Mr.
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William Hatters
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an Hatter in
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Upper East Smith field, having missed an Hatt, upon
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the Hatt being described to him by this Informant, (and being this
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same Hatt left with this Informant by the Prisoner) owned
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such Hatt to be his property, and swore that the same had
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been felonionsly stolen out of his said shop, by some person
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or persons unknown : And this Informant saith that when
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such person called upon him for the Said Hatt. he this
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apprehended and
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carried as to the Public office in
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, from whence
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he was committed for further Examination : And this informant
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upon his Oath Saith, that he Verily believes, that such Hatt
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was feloniously stolen taken and carries away by the
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Prisoner, who called himself Gibson, from and out of the
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Shop of the said
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William Hatton
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Sworn
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this 4th: Oct 1783
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Before
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P Greene
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