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<p n="97"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo74">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n97-1">John Mead</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date20">12th.. day of January 1785</rs>
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<p n="98">Who being on Oath says that this evening between 5 and 6 o'Clock<lb></lb>
as he was in the Pit passage of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo75">Drury Lane Theatre</rs>
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he felt<lb></lb>
a hand in his breeches pocket when on turning round he found<lb></lb>
it to be the hand of a Person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
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Ellis, who he immediately Secured, and on searching<lb></lb>
found that his Pocket had been picked of two shillings<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and<lb></lb>
one Six pence and two Keys.</p>
<p n="99">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
12th. day of Janry. 1785}</p>
<p n="100">W Addington</p>
<p n="101"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n101-1">John Meads</rs>
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