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<p n="68"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo55">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n68-1">Roger Thorne</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n68-2">John Smallwood</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 27th.. day of Decemr<lb></lb>
1783</p>
<p n="69">Who being upon Oath say and first the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n69-1">Roger Thorne</rs>
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says that a Regimental Pistol<lb></lb>
now produced is his Property and was Stolen out<lb></lb>
of the Store Room at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo56">Star and Garter</rs>
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at Keid<lb></lb>
Bridge on Tuesday last-That missing his Pistol<lb></lb>
be with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n69-2">John Smallwood</rs>
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searched the<lb></lb>
Yard and Outhouses near the Store Room where<lb></lb>
they found the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n69-3">William Cousins</rs>
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secreted upon<lb></lb>
a Mushroom Bed covered with Straw and<lb></lb>
the Said Pistol lying by him and also a<lb></lb>
Blanket now produced wrapped round him<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n69-4">John Smallwood</rs>
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says that he<lb></lb>
assisted in securing the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n69-5">William Cousins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and found that the said Blanket was his<lb></lb>
property and had been stolen from him the<lb></lb>
same Evening</p>
<p n="70">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
27th. day of Decemr. 1783}</p>
<p n="71">M Addington</p>
<p n="72"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n72-1">Roger Thorn</rs>
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<p n="73">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n73-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Smallwood</rs>
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Mark</p>
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