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<p n="7"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo6">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit,</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n7-1">Joseph Simmonds</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n7-2">John Hardy</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ4">Servants</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n7-3">Joseph Capps</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo7">Oxford<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ5">Linen Draper</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date4">19th.<lb></lb>
day of January 1785</rs>
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<p n="8">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n8-1">Joseph Simmonds</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that on Saturday last a person now present who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n8-2">Mary Morton</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Masters Shop and bought two Handkerchiefs and a Quarter of<lb></lb>
a Yard of Flannel<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
that after said Morton was gone out of<lb></lb>
said Shop Informant Suspected<del>said</del>
she had taken something<lb></lb>
away with her; that he Informed his Master of his suspicious who<lb></lb>
immediately Ordered <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n8-3">John Hardy</rs>
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to follow her, And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n8-4">John Hardy</rs>
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says that he immediately followed said Morton<lb></lb>
into the Street when Informant told her she had something more<lb></lb>
than her Own, that on bringing her back to the shop two pieces of<lb></lb>
Handkerchiefs now produced fell from her on the step of the<lb></lb>
door of his said Masters Shop and another piece of Handkerchief<lb></lb>
now produced Informant caught as they were falling from said<lb></lb>
Morton, when he immediately Secured her.</p>
<p n="9">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
19th. day of January 1785.}</p>
<p n="10">Addington</p>
<p n="11"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n11-1">Joseph Simons</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n11-2">John Hardy</rs>
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