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<p n="1440"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1378">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1440-1">Thos Jones</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1379">the Bell inn</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1380">Bell Yard</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1381">Jelly<lb></lb>
France</rs>
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Westr. who on his Oath saith that about Six o'Clock this Morning<lb></lb>
He was called up by his Maid Servant & told that she imagined<lb></lb>
some Person had been in his Cellar, the flap in the yard we was<lb></lb>
usually taken up to start the Beer being turned to pay purvey<lb></lb>
<del>That</del>
This Deponent saith. He immediatly got up & went to<lb></lb>
the Cellar in which He<del>where a</del>
found to have entered by a<obscured></obscured>
dowd a quantity of Liquor running on the<lb></lb>
Floor which He discovered<del>which He found to have can</del>
from a Cask which Contain<lb></lb>
<del> <obscured></obscured>
Gallons</del>
half aftsd of Gen & in which several Holes had been bend-That He then went into the Room of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1440-2">Langham Booth</rs>
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One of his Lodger,<del>where</del>
& from the great smell of Gin<lb></lb>
& the Appearence of Liquor Spilt on the Floor He had reason<lb></lb>
to believe & does suspect He the land One <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1440-3">John Hardwick</rs>
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then in the Room the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1440-4">Langhm. Both</rs>
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must be acquainted with<lb></lb>
the foregoing particulars <del>And this Deponent saith that a<lb></lb>
Stone Bottle that He is certain was in the Cellar the<lb></lb>
preceding being was</del>
</p>
<p n="1441"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1441-1">Thomas Jones</rs>
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<p n="1442"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <del> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1442-1">Langham Booth</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1442-2">John Hardwick</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1442-3">Mich Stewart</rs>
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</del>
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<p n="1443">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date234">6th June 1787</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1443-1">Edw Parker</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1444"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1382">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1444-1">John Hardwick</rs>
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, & <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1444-2">Langham Booth</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who on their Oaths severally say & first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1444-3">John Hardwick</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself saith, that between three & Four<del>about Two</del>
o'Clock this Morning He in Company<lb></lb>
with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1444-4">Michael Stewart</rs>
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came<del>into</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1383"> <del>Bell court</del>
</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1384">the Bell Inn</rs>
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in in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo1385">Bell Yard</rs>
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Westr.<lb></lb>
and that He saw<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1444-5">Michael Stewart</rs>
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broke into the Cellar of the said<del>said</del>
House, which is kept<lb></lb>
by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1444-6">Thomas Jones</rs>
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-And this Deponent further saith that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1444-7">Michl.<lb></lb>
Stewart</rs>
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went down into the Cellar & staid about a quarter of an Hour &<lb></lb>
then came up this<del>thro the opening He had made in the</del>
by throwing up the flap<del>to</del>
to the cellar<lb></lb>
in the Yard usually opened for starting<del>him</del>
of Beer and brought up Door,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a Jars Containg abt. 2 Quarts of Porter<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<del>Catton stone Bottle</del>
which they took<del>the same</del>
upstairs into Langham Booths Room in the said House <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1444-8">John Hardwick</rs>
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having called<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the said Booth out of his to let there during the Time <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1444-26">Micl Stewart</rs>
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was in the Cellar<del>into </del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n1444-68"> <del>Thos James</del>
</rs>
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<del>House</del>
is after<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
they Deponents & John<del>Stewart</del>
had drank the same<del>the same</del>
of drank<del>the said</del>
Hardwick Mich stewart returned to the Cellar & brought<lb></lb>
up A Two Gallon stone Bottle nearly full of Ab. of which they Drank what<lb></lb>
the liked, & then the lay down on the Bed-And further<del>this</del>
Deponent saith not and<lb></lb>
this Deponent Langham Booth saith for himself, that<del>about</del>
between 3 & 4 o'Clock</p>
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