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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1640-1">William Hall</rs>
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taken before me this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date293">3d- day of May 1786</rs>
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<p n="1641">Who being upon Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1641-1">William Hall</rs>
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saith<lb></lb>
that on Saturday the 29th day of April last between the Hours of two<lb></lb>
and three o'Clock in the Afternoon as he was bringing the Basket<lb></lb>
of Linen now produced on his Head from <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1641-2">Peter Calverts</rs>
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thro' <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1786">Hanover Square</rs>
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he was<lb></lb>
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who stood at the Second Door from the Bar in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1787">Hanover-Square</rs>
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and appeared to this Informant to be a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ718">Servant</rs>
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; that said Johnson<lb></lb>
requested this Informant to get him a Coach for doing which he<lb></lb>
would give him Six Pence, which he gave him, and told this<lb></lb>
Informant that he would take care of his Basket and Linen in<lb></lb>
the mean timethat this Informant left the Basket of Linen<lb></lb>
in said Johnsons care together with his Knott, and went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1788">Bond Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and got a Coach, and on his return found Johnson gone and the<lb></lb>
Basket of Linen and his Knott alsothe said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1641-59">Henry Cracker</rs>
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saith that between 2 and 3 o Clock in the Afternoon of said Saturday<lb></lb>
the 29th. day of April last he saw a person now present who calls himself<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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with the<lb></lb>
Basket of Linen on his head in the Highway between <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo1789">Tottenham<lb></lb>
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, that Johnson was close<lb></lb>
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-alias <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1641-54">Levi</rs>
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opposite them next the Nailsthat this</p>
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