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<p n="3718"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2512">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3718-1">John Scott</rs>
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Taken on Oath this 29th. day of december 1784 before met<lb></lb>
on of his Majestys Justices of Kitchen in and for the said<lb></lb>
County.Who<del>being on Oath</del>
Saith That:.</p>
<p n="3719">On the Morning of December 20th. 1784 this Informt.<lb></lb>
was alarmed by his Servant Knocking at his Chamber<lb></lb>
Don & saying these were Rogues in the House (or<lb></lb>
Words to that Effect) on which after letting the Servant<lb></lb>
into his Room & ordering him to reach down his Blunderbuss<lb></lb>
he this Informant called from his Window to the<lb></lb>
Watchman or Watchmen who were standing in<lb></lb>
the Front of this Informant House & told him<lb></lb>
or them to go to the back of his House for<obscured></obscured>
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these were Thieves in it & to make as little<obscured></obscured>
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as possibleThat this Informant then slipt on<lb></lb>
his Cloaths, loaded his Blunderbuss & with his<lb></lb>
Man went down Stairs when this Informant found<lb></lb>
his Sailors Door open, which had been locked & the<lb></lb>
Door of a Closet (which is in the Room) likewise open<lb></lb>
& all the Plate which was the seen taken out consistg<lb></lb>
of the several Articles mentioned in the Inventing<lb></lb>
hereunto annexed lend the Window of the sd. Room also open<lb></lb>
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