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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1629-1">Samuel Barnes</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1759">No 47</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1629-2">Edward Pritchard</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1629-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Bowie</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1762">the Key Bagnio</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1763">Princes Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1764">Drury Lane</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date289">1st.<lb></lb>
day of May 1786</rs>
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<p n="1630">Who being upon Oath says and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1630-1">Samuel<lb></lb>
Barnes</rs>
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says that on Wednesday night last was sevenight between the hours of twelve and one he by appointment<lb></lb>
met aperson now present who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1630-2">Ruth Mercer</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1766">the Strand</rs>
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that he went with her to the<lb></lb>
Key Bagnis in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1767">Princes Street</rs>
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that they went<lb></lb>
to bed together, but that he this Informant fastened the<lb></lb>
door of the room in which they lay that in about half an hour after they were in bed<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1630-3">Ruth Mercer</rs>
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observed to him, that she must get up<lb></lb>
and go away, as she had a particular friend to meat<lb></lb>
that she then got up dressed herself and went away<lb></lb>
that he is very sure at the time he went to Bed with<lb></lb>
her, he had in his right hand breeches pocket three Guineas<lb></lb>
and an half Guinea in Moneyand that he put his<lb></lb>
Metal Watch upon a Table in the Room that suspecting<lb></lb>
said Mercer to have some Particular Reason for quitting<lb></lb>
him, he searched his Breeches Pockets and looked on<lb></lb>
the Table, when he found his said Watch and Money gone<lb></lb>
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end further says that he is very sure that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1630-4">Ruth Mercer</rs>
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(from the above as well as other Circumstance)<lb></lb>
is the Person who feloniously stole the sameThe said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1630-5">Edward Pritchard</rs>
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says that on Wednesday last was Sevenight<lb></lb>
between the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
hours of twelve and one o Clock the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1630-6">Samuel<lb></lb>
Barnes</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1630-7">Ruth Mercer</rs>
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came to his said Masters</p>
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