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<p n="1799"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1905">Middlesex</rs>
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(to Wit)</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1799-1">Elizabeth Benfield</rs>
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daughter of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1799-2">Joseph Banfield</rs>
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it <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1906">No. 6</rs>
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in the Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1908">Ratcliff</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1799-3">Richard Blundell</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1799-4">Sarah Engleback</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1909">Church Lane</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1912">London Street</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ753">Wharfinger</rs>
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Taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date314">Fourth day of October 1786</rs>
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before me One of his<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ754">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="1800">Who being upon their Oaths severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1800-1">Elizabeth Banfield</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
herself saith that about a Quarter of an hour before seven O' Clock this Evening the saw a person<lb></lb>
now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1800-2">Stephen Newman</rs>
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take a Tea Tray now Produced out of the<lb></lb>
Window of her said Father house and which Tray is the property of her said Father that she<lb></lb>
Immediately threw up the Sash Jumped out of the Window into the Street called out Stop<lb></lb>
Thief and pursued him to the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1913">Pump Yard</rs>
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where he was Stopped by the Informant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1800-26">Richard Blurdell</rs>
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who for himself saith that hearing the Cry of Stop Thief Made by the Informant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1800-4">Elizabeth Banfield</rs>
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and perceiving the prisoner running down <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1914">London Street</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
he Stopt her at the Corner of Pump Yard when the Informant Banfield came Sup and<lb></lb>
told him the prisoners was the person who hade stole a Tea Tray from her Fathers house<lb></lb>
and desired him to keep the prisoner an Custody until she could get an Officer, that he<lb></lb>
accordingly look him into the house of Mr. Cullum where he was secured until he was<lb></lb>
delivered into the Custody of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1800-5">John Orange</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ755">Officer</rs>
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and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1800-6">William Mather</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself says that about seven O Clock this Evening coming ant of his house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1915">London Street</rs>
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Aforesaid in order to see if his Cellar Window was fast he found the Tea Tray now produced<lb></lb>
Standing upon its Edge Close to the wall of his house where this Ellison a person who<lb></lb>
liver Opposite to Informant called to him and sayed that was the Tea Tray<lb></lb>
belonging to Mrs Banfield soon after which Miss Banfield came and to told Informant<lb></lb>
that Tray belonged 16<del>her</del>
and her went with Informant to the house of Mr Cullum<lb></lb>
where the prisoner then was in Custody</p>
<p n="1801">Taken and Sworn the day and Year<lb></lb>
first above written before me}</p>
<p n="1802"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1802-1">John Staples</rs>
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<p n="1803"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1803-1">Elizabeth Banfield</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1803-2">Richards Blundon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mather</p>
<p n="1804"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1804-1">Stephen Newman</rs>
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upon his Examination Saith that he knows nothing of the<lb></lb>
above Robbery but coming down London Street he heard Informant Banfield<lb></lb>
Cry out Stop Thief when her run across the Street and Crud out Stop Thief<lb></lb>
and followed the Man to the Corner of the Street when he was Stopped by<lb></lb>
<del>George</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1804-52">John Trinder</rs>
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an Evidence Bound to prosecuteThat he is by Trade a<lb></lb>
<del>Gummith</del>
came from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1916">Plymouth</rs>
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on Friday last went this day to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1917">Blackwell</rs>
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and Intended to go from thence to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1918">Blackman Street</rs>
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or to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1919">the<lb></lb>
Borough</rs>
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had he not been prevented there from by his bring in Trouble</p>
<p n="1805">Before me this 4th. day of October<lb></lb>
1736<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1805-1">John Staples</rs>
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}</p>
<p n="1806">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1806-1">Stephen<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Newman</rs>
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Mark</p>
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