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<p n="1164"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo814">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1164-1">Sarah Spencer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1164-2">Elizabeth Williams</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1164-3">Robert Edmonds</rs>
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, James Crickland, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1164-4">Timothy Coombes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1164-5">Thomas Morris</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1164-6">William Stanton</rs>
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taken before me this 29th.<lb></lb>
day of March 1784</p>
<p n="1165">Who on their Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-1">Sarah Spencer</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
she is Servant to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-2">Jacob Kirkman</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo815">Broad Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo816">Carnaby Market</rs>
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Harpsickord<lb></lb>
Maker Says that on Saturday night last between 9 & 10 o'Clock she locked<lb></lb>
the Coat cellar Door in the Area before her Masters House and did not open<lb></lb>
it afterwards that Night. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-3">Elizabeth Williams</rs>
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says that She<lb></lb>
does not recollect unlocking or opening the said Coal cellar Door at any<lb></lb>
time afterwards on that Night. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-4">Robert Edmonds</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that the Cutlass now produced by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-5">William Stanton</rs>
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, is this Informant's<lb></lb>
property and <obscured></obscured>
lent by this Informant to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-6">William Duff</rs>
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now present<lb></lb>
on Saturday was a Week between 11 & 12 o'Clock at Night-who at that<lb></lb>
time pretended that some Thieves had attempted to break into his<lb></lb>
Master's house, and that he Duff wanted a Cutlass to Defend the<lb></lb>
same and afterwards on a subsequent Day pretended that He had<lb></lb>
broke said Cutlass. And said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-7">Timothy Coombes</rs>
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says that he is<lb></lb>
a Watchman and between 2 & 3 o'Clock Yesterday morning as he was<lb></lb>
going his Round in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo817">Broad Street</rs>
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he observed three Men in said Mr..<lb></lb>
Kirkman's Area upon which he made an AlarmAnd the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-8">James Cridland</rs>
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says that he came to said Coombes's assistance<lb></lb>
and after searching Mr. Kirkman's house some time he found <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-9">William<lb></lb>
Duff</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-10">Robert Reed</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-11">John Lewis</rs>
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now present in the aforesaid<lb></lb>
Coal-cellar-and upon the person of said Lewis the found 7 picklock<lb></lb>
keys, one Saw, a Stock and two Center bits and Finder box now produced<lb></lb>
together with Matches, Gimblet and Tinder and says that the<lb></lb>
said Coal-cellar Door appeared to this Informant to have been<lb></lb>
burst open. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1165-12">Thomas Morris</rs>
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says that he is<lb></lb>
Coachman to said Mr. Kirkman and that after the said three</p>
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