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<p n="1140"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo791">Westminster</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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{The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1140-1">Thomas Hill</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 29 Day of April 1784.</p>
<p n="1141">Who being upon Oath says that on Monday the Twenty<lb></lb>
Sixth Instant between the Stowns of One & Two in the Afternoon He<lb></lb>
this Informant was going along <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo792">the Strand</rs>
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near the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo793">New<lb></lb>
Church</rs>
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was accosted by a Person now present Who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-1">John Watson</rs>
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who Stooped down and with his Hand pick'd up some-<lb></lb>
-thing like a Purse and told this Informant He thought it was<lb></lb>
a Prize and as no person but this Informant saw thin pick<lb></lb>
it up He this Informant should have Half of it as He did not<lb></lb>
doubt but it this Informant had picked it up He would have given<lb></lb>
Him the same that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-2">John Watson</rs>
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took this Informant<lb></lb>
to a Publick House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo794">Charles Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo795">Long Acre</rs>
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into a Private<lb></lb>
Room and calld for Three penny worth of Crank that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-3">John Watson</rs>
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took out of His Pocket a Silk Purse of Various Colours<lb></lb>
and out of the said Purse a Bill & Stampd. Receipt for above a<lb></lb>
Hundred Pound for a Diamond Ring and a Little Black Box con-<lb></lb>
taining a Ring which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-4">John Watson</rs>
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said was a diamond<lb></lb>
Ring and of Great Value and that He did not doubt but it would<lb></lb>
be in the Papers in the Mornings that a Third Person came<lb></lb>
into the Room to whom the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-5">John Watson</rs>
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communicated<lb></lb>
his Good Luck the Third Person looked at the Ring said it was<lb></lb>
very valuable that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-6">John Watson</rs>
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told this Informant<lb></lb>
He did not know how to make them Satisfaction for his Share but<lb></lb>
that the would go to an Uncle in Town and get some Money that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-7">John Watson</rs>
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went away for about Ten Minutes then re<lb></lb>
turned and said his Stunt was gone in the County to Lye in and<lb></lb>
his Unkle was gone to see her that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-8">John Watson</rs>
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asked<lb></lb>
this Informant if He had anything about Him of Value or a Wat<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
to Leave with the Third Person till that Evening Seven oClock<lb></lb>
that they all agreed to meet at <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-9">Robert Jones</rs>
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's No 19 Bishop gate Street<lb></lb>
that this Informant gave a Watch that had been lent to Him and<lb></lb>
Two Shillings & Six pence to the said Third Person that there said<lb></lb>
his Name was <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-10">Robert Jones</rs>
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and that He wrote the Direction now<lb></lb>
produced and said it was his Address, that this Informant then<lb></lb>
left them that He went to the Place appointed but could not find any<lb></lb>
such Person that He met the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1141-11">John Watson</rs>
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this afternoon<lb></lb>
the Corner of Downing Street and immediately took hold of Him</p>
<p n="1142">Sworn before me this <lb></lb>
29 Day of May 1784.</p>
<p n="1143"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1143-1">Robt. Abington</rs>
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