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<p n="1185"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1190">Middlesex</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1185-1">John Smith</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1191">Whitechapel<lb></lb>
Road</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ438">Side Broker</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1185-2">John Wood</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1192">Lamb Court</rs>
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same place<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ439">Waterman</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ440">Lighterman</rs>
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taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date194">27th. day of June 1787</rs>
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<p n="1186">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1186-1">John Smith</rs>
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for himself says about<lb></lb>
Five or Six Weeks since he let a Lodging ready furnished to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1186-2">William Hamilton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and his Wife at Two Shillings and Three pence P Week That he gave them possession<lb></lb>
of said Lodging consisting of a Room in which Room were one Bed and Bolster<lb></lb>
one pair of Linnen Streets And One Blanket his property let as aforesaid<lb></lb>
Says in the night of the Nineteenth Instant. The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1186-3">William Hamilton</rs>
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and Wife<lb></lb>
Left his said Lodging and in the Forenoon of the neat day he found that said<lb></lb>
Lodging had been robbed of the abovementioned articles and that he Verily<lb></lb>
Believes the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1186-4">William Hamilton</rs>
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is the person who robbed him as<lb></lb>
aforesaid</p>
<p n="1187">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1187-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="1188">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1188-1">John Wood</rs>
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on his Oath says Tuesday night was a Week or<lb></lb>
on the Wednesday Morning early as he was standing at the Door of a house<lb></lb>
<del>at</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1193">Whitechapel Road</rs>
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Side near the House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1188-2">John Smith</rs>
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he saw<lb></lb>
a man coming along the Foot Path<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
with a Blanket in which as<lb></lb>
appeared to him by the Bulk to be a Bed-Says he verily believes the<lb></lb>
person present who says his Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1188-3">William Hamilton</rs>
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is the same<lb></lb>
person who he saw as aforesaid</p>
<p n="1189">Taken and Sworn<lb></lb>
The day and Year abovementioned<lb></lb>
Before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1189-1">John Staples</rs>
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<p n="1190"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1190-1">John Wood</rs>
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<p n="1191">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1191-1">William Hamilton</rs>
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says he is Innocent of the Charge and that he only took<lb></lb>
his own Things away with himThat he has been to sea which he left<lb></lb>
about Two Years Since and has employed himself in going about with<lb></lb>
Fish and doing what he could for a Lively hood</p>
<p n="1192">Taken and Signed<lb></lb>
27 June 1787 Before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1192-1">John Staples</rs>
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<p n="1193"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1193-1">Wm. Hamilton</rs>
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