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<p n="144"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo103">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n144-1">Thomas Evans</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n144-2">Samuel<lb></lb>
Sampson</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n144-3">George Pritt</rs>
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taken before me this 24th. day of<lb></lb>
December 1783</p>
<p n="145">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-1">Thomas Evans</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that he is Shopman to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-2">George Pritt</rs>
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says that on Friday<lb></lb>
last between 2 and 3 o' Clock, two Persons now present who calls<lb></lb>
themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-3">Ann Moore</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-4">Sarah Partridge</rs>
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came into his<lb></lb>
Masters Shop and asked to took at some Persian, and sold them<lb></lb>
Half a Yard That said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-5">Ann Moore</rs>
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then asked to took at some<lb></lb>
Mode which he shewed her, at which time Partridge stood<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
by the Fire. That upon <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-6">Samuel Sampson</rs>
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coming into the<lb></lb>
Shop this Informant went up to Dinner. And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-7">Samuel Sampson</rs>
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says that this Informant sold to the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-8">Ann Moore</rs>
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Hatt a yard of Mode & during the time he was<lb></lb>
serving her the said Partridge sat by the Fire and near<lb></lb>
the Place where the piece of Mode now produced lay. That<lb></lb>
said Partridge said she Mad dropped her Sisters Gold ring,<lb></lb>
when Mr. Pritt came down stairs and after lighting<lb></lb>
Candle found said RIng. That after said Moore & Partridge<lb></lb>
were gone he suspected they had stolen some thing and<lb></lb>
accordingly followed them in order to see where they would<lb></lb>
go to. That they were joined by a third Woman near the Five <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo104">Bell<lb></lb>
Tavern</rs>
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whom he believes to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-9">Mary Stokes</rs>
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now in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo105">New Prison</rs>
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That this Informant traced the said three Women to the House<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-10">Mary Gardner</rs>
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new present in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo106">Hart Street</rs>
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Count Garden<lb></lb>
when he returned and told said Mr. Pritt. And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n145-11">George Pritt</rs>
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says that the 64 Ells ¼ of Black Mode now<lb></lb>
produced is his property and was in his Shop when the said<lb></lb>
Moore and Partridge came in. That this Informant upon</p>
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