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<p n="1599"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1717">Westminster</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1599-1">Benjamin Shaw</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ693">Shopman</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1599-2">John Fieldsend</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1718">No. 25</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1719">Oxford Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ694">Linen Draper</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1599-3">Alexander Burrows</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1720">the Oxford Coffee house</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1721">the Strand</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1599-4">William Marsh</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
Lodged at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1722">the Masons Arms</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1723">Mattocks Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1724">Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1599-5">James Owen</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ695">Servant</rs>
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to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1599-6">John<lb></lb>
Fieldsend</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date280">27th. day of May<lb></lb>
1786</rs>
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<p n="1600">Who being upon Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1600-1">Benjamin Shaw</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that this Morning between twelve and one o Clock aperson now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1600-2">William Brown</rs>
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came into the said Mr. Fieldsends<lb></lb>
Shop, and asked to look at some ribbed Cotton Stockingsthat he<lb></lb>
shewed him aparcel containing eleven pairthat said Brown then<lb></lb>
said he wished to took at some with a broader ribb, which this<lb></lb>
Informant fetched him, leaving the eleven pair before himthis<lb></lb>
upon this Informant's return to said Brown with the third parcel<lb></lb>
he missed two of the eleven pairthat said Brown offered him three<lb></lb>
shillingg and expence for apair of those which he last brought, and<lb></lb>
which were four shillings a pairthat said Brown then offered<lb></lb>
three Shillings and nine pence, when this Informant desired said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1600-3">James Owen</rs>
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to come round to him; for that the said Brown had<lb></lb>
taken two pair of Stockingsthat said Brown then threw down<lb></lb>
four Shillings and ran out of the Shop - that Informant pursued<lb></lb>
him and apprehended him the corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1725">Hanway Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1726">Oxford Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and further saith that the two pair of Stockings now produced by the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1600-4">James Owen</rs>
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he is very sure are the same that were so stolen<lb></lb>
as aforesaid - the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1600-5">Alexander Burrows</rs>
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says that between the<lb></lb>
hours of twelve and one o Clock this forenoon he saw several persons<lb></lb>
in pursuit of said Brown in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1727">Oxford Street</rs>
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- that some of said<lb></lb>
persons seized him by the Collar, at which time he saw a pair of<lb></lb>
Cotton Stockings now produced drop from him, immediately after which<lb></lb>
he delivered them to said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1600-6">James Owen</rs>
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the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1600-7">William Marsh</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that he saw said Brown pursuing at this timethat he saw<lb></lb>
him throw four him the other pair of Cotton Stockings now produced which</p>
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