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<p n="3134"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2354">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3134-1">Thomas Aynton</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3134-2">Mary Elizabeth Silvester</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3134-4">John Speirs</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this 8th,, day of December<lb></lb>
1783.</p>
<p n="3135">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3135-1">Thomas Ayrton</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that a Quantity of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3135-2">Lead Pipe</rs>
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now produced is the property of<lb></lb>
this Informant, and was feloniously stolen and is a part of the<lb></lb>
Water Pipe in the Kitchen of his House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2355">Burleigh Street</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3135-3">Mary Elizabeth Silvester</rs>
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says that she is a<lb></lb>
Lodger in said House, and upon hearing a Knocking in the<lb></lb>
Cellar of said House on Saturday night last about 8 o'Clock,<lb></lb>
she acquainted the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3135-4">John Spiers</rs>
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therewith. And the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3135-5">John Spiers</rs>
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says that he immediately went into the<lb></lb>
Kitchen of said House where, he found the Lead Pipe now<lb></lb>
produced cut off, and lying on the Kitchen Floor, and in<lb></lb>
the Kitchen Chimney found a Person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3135-6">Thomas Pritchard</rs>
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. That whilst this Informant went<lb></lb>
up to call Assistance said Pritchard followed him up,<del>and</del>
<lb></lb>
locked the Street door and shut him out; but was afterwards<lb></lb>
secured in the Vault.</p>
<p n="3136">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
8th. day of December 1783.}</p>
<p n="3137">W Addington</p>
<p n="3138"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3138-1">Thos. Ayrton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Eth Silvester<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3138-3">John Spier</rs>
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