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<p n="37"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo49">Westminster</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n37-1">Thomas Lowring</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n37-2">Thomas Gaiter</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n37-3">William Strickland</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n37-4">John Saunders</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date11">18th. day of December 1786</rs>
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<p n="38">Who being upon Oath say and first the said Thomas Lowring<lb></lb>
for himself says that eleven pair of Shoes now produced are his<lb></lb>
property and have been stolen from his Shop at different Times,<lb></lb>
and the said Thomas Gaiter for himself says that yesterday he found<lb></lb>
two pair of the said Shoes upon <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-1">John Ford</rs>
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now present who acknowledged<lb></lb>
that he had stolen them without Mr. Lowring's Knowledge and likewise<lb></lb>
acknowledge that he had stolen other Shoes from the said Mr. Lowring<lb></lb>
and that he would shew the Shop where he had sold them, and the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-2">John Saunders</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-3">William Strickland</rs>
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for themselves, say that in<lb></lb>
Consequence of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-4">John Ford</rs>
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's Acknowledgement they went with<lb></lb>
him to the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-5">John Davies</rs>
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now present in Bird Street where<lb></lb>
this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-6">John Saunders</rs>
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found the other nine pair of Shoes<lb></lb>
now produced and which shoes the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-7">John Davies</rs>
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owned that he<lb></lb>
had bought at different Times from the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-8">John Ford</rs>
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at Prices<lb></lb>
much under the next value of them, And these Informant further<lb></lb>
say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-9">John Davis</rs>
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being a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ12">Shoemaker</rs>
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and a Judge of the<lb></lb>
value of Shoes and purchasing Shoes under Price from a Man of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-10">John Ford</rs>
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's Appearance they verily believes the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n38-11">John Davies</rs>
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knew the said Shoes which he purchased must have<lb></lb>
been Stolen</p>
<p n="39">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date12">Decemr. 18. 1786</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n39-1">Jno. Griffiths</rs>
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<p n="40"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n40-1">Thomas Loaring</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n40-2">Thomas Gater</rs>
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<p n="41">his<lb></lb>
Wm.<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Strickland<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="42"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n42-1">Jno. Sanders</rs>
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