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<p n="1065"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1048">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1065-1">Thomas Wakerley</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1049">No 131</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1051">City of London</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1065-2">Ann Stokes</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1052">Benfield</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1053">Berks</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ427">Spinster</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date177">20th. day of March 1786</rs>
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<p n="1066">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1066-1">Thomas Wakerley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that the Warehouse of Messrs <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1066-2">Henry Bankes</rs>
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and Company<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1054">Essex Street</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1055">the Strand</rs>
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hath lately been broke open and<lb></lb>
robbed of a Quantity of black Lead and that he doth verily believe<lb></lb>
that the Black Lead now produced is part of the Lead which was<lb></lb>
taken away from said WarehouseThe said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1066-3">Ann Stokes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for herself saith that on Sunday Morning the 5th. day of March<lb></lb>
instant as she was passing by the said Warehouse she observed<lb></lb>
the traces of Mens feet in the Snow with in the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Iron Rails<lb></lb>
which fence the Court bading to the Door of said Warehouse<lb></lb>
and on more particularly looking at said Footsteps she<lb></lb>
perceived a Quantity of Lead Dust lye upon the snow from<lb></lb>
which Circumstance this Informant is very sure that said<lb></lb>
Warehouse had lately been Robbed and that the Lead Dust had<lb></lb>
been dropped in carrying the Lead away</p>
<p n="1067">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
20th. day of March 1786}</p>
<p n="1068"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1068-1">Sampr Wright</rs>
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<p n="1069"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1069-1">Thos. Wakerley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1069-2">Ann Stokes</rs>
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