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<p n="1694"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1466">Middlesex</rs>
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(to Wit)</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1694-1">Jacob Selby</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1467">Saint John Southwark</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1468">Surry</rs>
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<del>Wates</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1469">Custom house Waterman</rs>
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Taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date318">12th<lb></lb>
day of October 1785</rs>
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before us two of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ555">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="1695"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1695-1">Jacob Selby</rs>
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on Oath saith the Ashen Oars now produced<lb></lb>
belong to a Tour Oar Skiff in his Service of the Inspector<lb></lb>
of the River That he on a Saturday the day of the Month he<lb></lb>
does not Recollect if three Week or a Month since he moored<lb></lb>
said Skiff in the Evening a Stern of the London Assurance Fire<lb></lb>
Engine lying of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1470">King Stairs</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1471">the Tower of London</rs>
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That he<lb></lb>
locked said Oars in said Skiff at that time and afterward tryed<lb></lb>
if he had locked them or not to as Bolt and Chain which was fast<lb></lb>
to the second Thwart of said Skiff Says Monday<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Morning<lb></lb>
about the hour of Eleven he went on board the said Skiff<lb></lb>
<del>wh</del>
and found the said Oars gone and the Lock That the<lb></lb>
said Oars are not in same Condition they were in at the<lb></lb>
Time he left them safe in said Skiff at the time aforesaid<lb></lb>
the Marks on the same appearing to have been in part<lb></lb>
Obliterated</p>
<p n="1696"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1696-1">Jacob Selby</rs>
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<p n="1697">Sworn<lb></lb>
The 12 Oct 1785<lb></lb>
Before us<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1697-1">John Staples</rs>
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P Greene</p>
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