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<p n="160"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo113">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n160-1">Edward Lycett</rs>
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of No 9 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo114">Round Court</rs>
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Saint Martin le Grand Working <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ21">Silversmith</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n160-2">Robert Mulcaster</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo115">Saint Martin le Grand</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ22">Constable</rs>
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taken before me this 29th.. day of Janry<lb></lb>
1784.</p>
<p n="161">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n161-1">Edward Lycett</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
having missed a considerable Quantity of Silver in his Trade of late<lb></lb>
and suspecting that some of his <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ23">Journeymen</rs>
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had robbed him of the same<lb></lb>
it induced this Informant to get some Bridges of Silver (amounting<lb></lb>
to 21 in number) cast last Night in a particular manner. That<lb></lb>
before this Informant went to bed last night, he laid out the said<lb></lb>
21 Bridges of Silver in his Kitchen in order for the Workman<lb></lb>
to take when they came to Work this Morning. That a little before<lb></lb>
9 o'Clock this Morning, (having previously missed in the Shop some of<lb></lb>
the said Bridges of Silver) he determined to search every Journeyman<lb></lb>
as he came down, in order to go to his Breaxfast. That he<lb></lb>
searched one Bayley who first came down, upon whom nothing<lb></lb>
was found. That presently after <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n161-2">John Bayliss</rs>
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now present came<lb></lb>
down, without being sent for and without finishing the Work<lb></lb>
which this Informant had given him to do. That upon this Informant<lb></lb>
telling him of his Intention to Search every Journeyman, the<lb></lb>
said Bayliss attempted to run upstairs, when Informant followed<lb></lb>
him, catched hold of his Coat, brought him down to the Parlour<lb></lb>
door, when, said Bayliss attempted to go towards the Street<lb></lb>
door. That Informant laid hold of him and brought him<lb></lb>
into the Parlour, where, this Informant delivered him to the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n161-3">Robert Mulcaster</rs>
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to be searched-to whom in Informant's<lb></lb>
presence, the said Bayliss delivered to the said Robert Muleaster,<lb></lb>
the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Bridges of Silver and Sixpieces of Bridges of<lb></lb>
Silver now produced. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n161-4">Robert Mulcaster</rs>
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says that</p>
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