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<p n="1142"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1156">Middlesex</rs>
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(to wit)</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1142-56">Jabz Lawson</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1157">No. 102</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1158">Ratcliff<lb></lb>
Highway</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1159">Saint George Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ427">Hezier</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1142-1">John Carpenter</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1160">Clerkenwell Green</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1161">Saint John Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ428">Labourer</rs>
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. Taken<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date187">Twentieth day of June 1787</rs>
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before me One of his<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ429">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="1143">Who being on their Oath severally say, and first the said Jabz Lawson for<lb></lb>
himself saith that between five and six O'Clock in the Afternoon of Monday last<lb></lb>
two men and a woman with a Child in her Arms came into this Informants<lb></lb>
Shop situate us aforesaid and requested to look at some<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Jackets. that he<lb></lb>
showed them several and one of the men Tried on two or Three one of which<lb></lb>
nearly fitted him but it being we too Long in the Sleeves he refused it.<del>That</del>
<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and went away Immediately without buying any thing. That informant<lb></lb>
on their departure looked into his Window and missed two pair of Worsted<lb></lb>
Stockings whereupon he can out if his Shop Immediately and overlook<lb></lb>
one of the said two men who is non here present and who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1143-1">Thomas Morrison</rs>
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at the distance of about. One hundred Yards. whom he<lb></lb>
Stopped and look out of his left hand Coat. one pair of Worsted Stockings<lb></lb>
now produced which are his property and one of the said two pair of<lb></lb>
Stockings he missed and which mere stolen from him at the time abovementioned<lb></lb>
And this Informant lastly Saith that another pair of Worsted Stockings now<lb></lb>
produced by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1143-2">John Carpenter</rs>
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who took the same out of the right hand Coat<lb></lb>
pocket (in the presence of Informant) of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1143-3">Thomas Morrison</rs>
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soon after<lb></lb>
he the Informant had Stopped him as aforesaid is likewise his property. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1143-4">John<lb></lb>
Carpenter</rs>
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for himself Saith that he was coming along <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1162">Ratcliff Highway</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
time abovementioned and seeing the prisoner Morrison running and the Informant<lb></lb>
after him he run likewise suspecting the said Morrison to have stolen something<lb></lb>
that he came up to them almost immediately and saw Informant.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Lawson take one<lb></lb>
pair of Worsted Stockings out of the pocket of said Morrison. and this Informant<lb></lb>
upon searching said Morrison took the pair of Stockings now produced out<lb></lb>
of his right Hand Coat Pocket.</p>
<p n="1144">Taken and Sworn the day and<lb></lb>
Year first above written before me}</p>
<p n="1145"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1145-1">Peter Greene</rs>
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<p n="1146"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1146-1">Jz. Lawson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1146-2">John Carpenter</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1147">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1147-1">Thomas Morrison</rs>
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being asked if he has any thing to say for himself<lb></lb>
Says he has nothing to say.</p>
<p n="1148">Signed and declared to he the truth<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date188">20th day of June 1787</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1149"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1149-1">Peter Greene</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1150">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1150-1">Thomas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Morrison</rs>
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Mark</p>
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