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<p n="2110"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2300">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2110-1">Charles Crause</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2301">Pumbury</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2302">Kent</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ914">Gentleman</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date371">5th. day of<lb></lb>
November 1786</rs>
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<p n="2111">Who being upon oath saith that last Night about 12 o'Clock<lb></lb>
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this Informant was returning from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2303">Thames Street</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2304">the Green<lb></lb>
Man</rs>
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and I till in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2305">Oxford Street</rs>
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where he lodgesThat in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2306">Fleet<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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his Pocket was picked of his Handkerchief - That between<lb></lb>
the hours of eleven and twelve oClock he mentioned to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2111-1">John Doery</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ915">Landlord</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2307">the Green Man</rs>
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and still aforesaid, "that he had his<lb></lb>
pocket picked of his Handkerchief and was happy to find that<lb></lb>
he had lost no more, as he had upwards of one Hundred pounds<lb></lb>
about himThat at this time a person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2111-56">JohnGewalt</rs>
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was present and heard the Conversation<lb></lb>
That in about half an hour afterwards, this Informant went to bed<lb></lb>
passing thro' the Bedroom of the said GewaltThat Informant<lb></lb>
put his Breeches under the Bolster of the Bed in order to secure<lb></lb>
them at which time they contained the five ten pound Bank Notes<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
two twenty pound Bank Notes and seventeen pounds four shillings<lb></lb>
and upwards in MoneyThat about three oClock he<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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awoke hearing a MoiseThat he searched for his Breeches and<lb></lb>
found them in the place where he had put themThat about<lb></lb>
four o'Clock he again took his Breeches and on searching them<lb></lb>
missed his said Notes and MoneyThat he then alarmed the<lb></lb>
House and said that he had been robbed and that he suspected<lb></lb>
said Gasault</p>
<p n="2112">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
5th. day of Novemr: 1786}</p>
<p n="2113"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2113-1">Sampn. Wright</rs>
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<p n="2114"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2114-1">Chas. Cranse</rs>
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