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<p n="3809"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2571">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3809-1">William Cole</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
on Oath the Thirtieth day of December 1784<lb></lb>
before me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ906">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2572">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="3810">Who on his Oath Saith That on the Twenty fifth day of<lb></lb>
December Instant between the hours of Twelve and four<lb></lb>
o Clock in the afternoon there was out out and feloniously stolen from his<lb></lb>
Dwelling house in the Ass Park in the Parish of Saint Matthew<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2573">Bethnal Green</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2574">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Fifty one Ells of<lb></lb>
half Ell Lining Manufactured, Thirty two Wooden Bobbins<lb></lb>
with silk wound on them (weight sixteen Ounces neat<lb></lb>
silk) and Thirty two Ounces of Double black silk<lb></lb>
unwound the Property of Messrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3810-1">John Gearing</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3810-2">John Vaux</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3810-3">Thomas John Taylor</rs>
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Master Weavers and Copartners<lb></lb>
And further Saith that he having a suspicion of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3810-4">Jacob<lb></lb>
Bellett</rs>
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the Prisoner now under Examination having<lb></lb>
stolen the same this Informant went to the house of the<lb></lb>
Prisoners Father (with whom the Prison lived) and<lb></lb>
made known that he had been Robbed and of his suspicion<lb></lb>
of the Prisoner upon which the Prisoners brother in Law<lb></lb>
consented for this Informant to look over the house and<lb></lb>
he went with him<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
into the workshop of the said house<lb></lb>
and they there found the Silk and the lining now produced<lb></lb>
by this Informant And in enquiry after the Prisoner he<lb></lb>
found him at a house in Baileys Court where he Confessed that he had cut the same out and then Gave<lb></lb>
him into the Custody of one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3810-5">John Grey</rs>
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a Peace Officer<lb></lb>
And that the silk now produced by this Informant<lb></lb>
is the property of the said Messrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3810-6">John Gearing</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3810-7">John<lb></lb>
Vaux</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3810-8">Thomas John Taylor</rs>
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and is the same silk<lb></lb>
that was stolen from his House as before mentioned</p>
<p n="3811">Taken and Sworn the<lb></lb>
day and Year above said<lb></lb>
before}</p>
<p n="3812"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3812-1">D Wilmot</rs>
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<p n="3813">The mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3813-1">Wm.<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Cole</rs>
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