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<p n="4007"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2728">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4007-1">George Chandler</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4007-2">James Hall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4007-3">Job<lb></lb>
Butterfield</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4007-4">Simon Goldsmith</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4007-5">John Pollock</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 29th. day of November 1784</p>
<p n="4008">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4008-1">George Chandler</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that either on Monday Night or Tuesday morning last a white Cock seven<lb></lb>
or eight Fowls and five Ducks were stolen from him at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2729">Greenford</rs>
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Green in<lb></lb>
the said County and further says that the white Cock now produced<lb></lb>
is the Lock stolen as aforesaid and that the doth verily believe that<lb></lb>
the eight Fowls and five Ducks now produced are the Fowls and Ducks<lb></lb>
that were stolen from him-The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4008-2">James Hall</rs>
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says that the three<lb></lb>
Ducks now produced are his property and were stolen from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2730">Greenford</rs>
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Green aforesaid on Monday Night last-The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4008-3">Job Butterfield</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that in the afternoon of Tuesday<del>afternoon</del>
last he found all<lb></lb>
the Fowls and Ducks now produced under some Hay near a Hay<lb></lb>
Rick in a Field called <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2731">New Field</rs>
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near Wainbley which Fowls and<lb></lb>
Ducks he brought in a Cart to Mr. Walkers at Wambley-The<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4008-4">Scinon Goldsmith</rs>
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says that he took the said Fowls and Ducks<lb></lb>
back to the Place from whence they were brought and hid them<lb></lb>
under some Hay near said Hay Rick-that about twelve o Clock that<lb></lb>
Night two persons now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4008-5">William Brooks</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4008-6">Benjamin<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Hilliard</rs>
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came from a Gate up to said Hay<lb></lb>
Rick and began tumbling the Hay about, when one of them said<lb></lb>
with an Oath that "the Hay had been tumbled and they are gone"<lb></lb>
whereupon this Informant presented a Green to said Hilliard and Said<lb></lb>
he would Shoot him if he did not<del>stood</del>
surrender, which he did,<lb></lb>
and this Informant and other secured him at<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
which time<lb></lb>
a third Companion Rode off from said Gate and at which Gate<lb></lb>
this Informant found a Bay Mare since claimed by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4008-7">Josiah<lb></lb>
Boydell</rs>
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-And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n4008-8">John Pollock</rs>
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says that he was set to<lb></lb>
Watch said Hay Rick with said Scinon Goldsmith-that he saw<lb></lb>
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