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<p n="514"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo573">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n514-1">Richard Plummer</rs>
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taken upon Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n514-2">William Blackborow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ197">Esqr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
one of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ198">Justices of the Pace</rs>
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in and<lb></lb>
for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date101">4th. day of February 1786</rs>
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<p n="515">This Informant upon his Oath saith that about<lb></lb>
four years ago he was bound <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ199">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n515-1">Thomas Sparkes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo574">Finch Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo575">Cornhill</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ200">Chimney Sweeper</rs>
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that about Two<lb></lb>
Years ago he was let out to the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n515-2">Samuel Bishop</rs>
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by<lb></lb>
his said Master at the rate of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Three Shillings per Week and<lb></lb>
that he hath continued with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n515-3">Samuel Bishop</rs>
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ever Since<lb></lb>
that he always went out with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n515-4">Samuel Bishop</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
gather in Soot early in the morning and that for about<lb></lb>
Three Weeks last past the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n515-5">Samuel Bishop</rs>
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hath made<lb></lb>
it a Practice to Steal the Alehouse Pots from the Doors<lb></lb>
of the Several Houses where they were placed in order that<lb></lb>
that the owners might get them in That all the Potts<lb></lb>
now produced have been Stolen in the manner aforesaid<lb></lb>
since Tuesday morning last And this Informant further<lb></lb>
saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n515-6">Samuel Bishop</rs>
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melted them down<lb></lb>
generally in a Frying Pawn and sold the Pewter<lb></lb>
at an Iron Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo576">Cow Cross Street</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo577">West Smithfield</rs>
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<p n="516">Taken and Sworn before me<lb></lb>
the Day and Year above Written}</p>
<p n="517">W Blackborow</p>
<p n="518">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n518-1">Richard<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Plummer</rs>
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Mark</p>
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