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<p n="1604"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1081">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1604-1">James Harris</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1082">Fenchurch<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1083">City of London</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1604-2">Richard Thomgay</rs>
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of No. 12 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1084">Middle Moorfields</rs>
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taken before me this 7th. day of May 1784.</p>
<p n="1605">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1605-1">James<lb></lb>
Harris</rs>
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says that last Night between 10 & 11 oClock as this Informant<lb></lb>
was passing under <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1085">Covent Garden Piazza</rs>
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a person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1605-3">John Barnes</rs>
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jostled against this Informant<lb></lb>
and picked his Pocket of a Gold Watch with a steel Chair and<lb></lb>
three gold SealsThat he immediately seized hold of him<lb></lb>
when he mixed with several other Men and endeavoured to<lb></lb>
escape but this Informant caused him to be securedAnd<lb></lb>
the said Richard Thomegary says that he was in Company<lb></lb>
with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1605-4">James Harris</rs>
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at the time he was robbed as<lb></lb>
aforesaid and saw said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1605-5">John Barnes</rs>
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snatch something<lb></lb>
from the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1605-6">James Harris</rs>
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's Breeches Pocket</p>
<p n="1606">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
7th. day of May 1784}</p>
<p n="1607"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1607-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="1608"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1608-1">James Harris</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1608-2">Richd. Thomegay</rs>
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