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<p n="151"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo122">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
The several Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n151-1">William<lb></lb>
Dorrington</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n151-2">George Jones</rs>
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Taken the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date35">2nd. day<lb></lb>
of January 1787</rs>
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<p n="152">Who upon their Oaths severally say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n152-1">William Dorrington</rs>
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for himself Saith That he is<lb></lb>
Foreman to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n152-2">George Jones</rs>
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the Elder of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo123">Broad<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo124">Bloomsbury</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ37">Hatmaker</rs>
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That about the<lb></lb>
hour of 6. oClock this Evening a Woman Came into<lb></lb>
his Masters Shop and asked for one Mrs. Smith<lb></lb>
a Washer woman and during the time he was answering<lb></lb>
the Woman he heard some paper which was under<lb></lb>
Some Hats in the Window make a kind of Noise as if<lb></lb>
a Hat was taken from the Window and upon looking towards<lb></lb>
the Window he Missed a Beaver Hat of the Value of<lb></lb>
Twelve Shillings Whereupon he Called to the other<lb></lb>
Informant to know how many Hats there were in the<lb></lb>
Window Who said Four but there were but Three at<lb></lb>
this time that the other Informant that went out<lb></lb>
of the Shop in Search of the person who Stole the<lb></lb>
Hat and immediately he saw him in the Street near<lb></lb>
the House with a Woman who says her Name<lb></lb>
is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n152-3">Mary Allen</rs>
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who said She had Coned a Hat<lb></lb>
and the hat which was Stolen was then brought to him<lb></lb>
which he imediately to be the same Hat</p>
<p n="153">And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n153-1">George Jones</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself Saith That he is the Son of the above named<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n153-2">George Jones</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ38">Elder</rs>
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and at the time the Hat was<lb></lb>
Stolen he & as in the back Shop at Work That<lb></lb>
upon the Information being given to him by Dorrington<lb></lb>
he followed the Woman out of the Shop who was asking</p>
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