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<p n="1545"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1628">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1545-1">Thomas Porter</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
upon Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1545-2">William Blackborow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ656">Esqr</rs>
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. One<lb></lb>
of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ657">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and<lb></lb>
for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date263">17th. day of May 1786</rs>
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<p n="1546">This Informant upon his Oath saith that on Sunday<lb></lb>
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the 14th. day of May instant at about the hour of<lb></lb>
Six of the Clock in the Morning He went into a necessary<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1629">Chequer Alley</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1630">White Cross Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1631">Parish of St. Luke</rs>
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in the said County. which necessary belongs to a Public<lb></lb>
House in which this Informant Lodges that he there<lb></lb>
went to Sleep and in a little time after was awakened<lb></lb>
by the Noise of a Bag with a quantity of Smiths Tools-<lb></lb>
and others things being thrown into the said necessary<lb></lb>
And this Informant then saw the Prisoners <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1546-1">William Day</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1546-2">William Williams</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1546-3">George Lambert</rs>
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and upon<lb></lb>
this Informants asking them where they had got the<lb></lb>
said bag and Tools they answered him that they<lb></lb>
had found it and was going to sell it This<lb></lb>
Informant then desired them to take it away and<lb></lb>
not leave it there which they did and he this<lb></lb>
Informant went to sleep again and on his awaking<lb></lb>
found that the bag & Tools was again brought back<lb></lb>
and a man in the Necessary who told this Informant<lb></lb>
he must go with him</p>
<p n="1547">Taken & Sworn before me<lb></lb>
the Day and Year first-<lb></lb>
above Written.}<lb></lb>
W Blackborow</p>
<p n="1548"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1548-1">Thomas Porter</rs>
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