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<p n="1712"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1153">Middlesex</rs>
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. to wit</note>
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The Information of Ann the Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1712-1">Joseph Cheetham</rs>
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of Fled<lb></lb>
Market London Cabinet maker Taken upon Oath before us <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1712-2">Nathaniel Conant</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1712-3">Joseph<lb></lb>
Girdler</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1712-4">Joseph Faikney</rs>
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Esquires Three<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ403">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1154">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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this 15th. day of May 1784.</p>
<p n="1713">Who being upon Oath Saith that the Prisr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1713-1">Thomas Peirce</rs>
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<del>came and</del>
took Lodgings at her<obscured></obscured>
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House once Friday a Fortnight before the Fire which happened in Saint<obscured></obscured>
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he said that the Wanted them for a Friend who was coming from the Con<obscured></obscured>
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the Wednesday following he brought a porter with a Bedstead and some Baxds and<lb></lb>
put them in the front Room up one Pair of Stairs on the Friday after he took the<lb></lb>
Lodgings he brought a porter with a large packing Case and the Prisoner borrowed<lb></lb>
a Knife of this Informant that the Prisoner told this Informant he had brought<lb></lb>
a Wrong Box and afterwards came with a porter and took away the large packing<lb></lb>
Case And this Informant further saith that on the day after the Fire the Prisoner<lb></lb>
told this Informant that he had suffered a great loss by Fire and upon this<lb></lb>
Informants asking him if he was injured the prisoner replied he believed that<lb></lb>
he was in sured in the Hand in Hand Fire office and also told this Informant<lb></lb>
that he did not Know how the Fire happened but he beleived it happened<lb></lb>
from the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ404">Stove in the Shop</rs>
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and that his Lodgers were very careless and add<obscured></obscured>
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that he had a short time before the Fire<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
had one hundred and twenty<lb></lb>
pounds worth of Goods And this Informant further saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1713-2">Thomas peirse</rs>
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<lb></lb>
also brought to this Informants House a paper parcel containing as this Informant<lb></lb>
believes Stockings And which said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Boxes and paper parcel were left as this<lb></lb>
Informant believes in the Room taken by the prisoner but the same have since<lb></lb>
without this Informants Knowledge been taken away from the said Room-that<lb></lb>
the prisoner also brought a Linnen Bag about three Parts full at the same time<lb></lb>
with the Boxes which Bag has also been taken away without this Informants<lb></lb>
Knowledge but what was the Contents of the said this Informant does not know</p>
<p n="1714">Sworn the day and you first<lb></lb>
above written Before}<lb></lb>
N <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1714-1">Conant<lb></lb>
Girdler</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1714-2">Joseph Faikney</rs>
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<p n="1715"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1715-1">Ann Cheetham</rs>
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