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<p n="819"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo558">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n819-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Williams</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n819-2">John Hodges</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ172">Watermen</rs>
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taken before us two<lb></lb>
of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ173">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="820">Who being upon then Oaths say and<lb></lb>
first this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n820-1">Thomas Williams</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself saith that on Saturday<lb></lb>
night last the 20th. of January instant<lb></lb>
he moored his Boat on the navigable<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo559">River Thames</rs>
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off <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo560">Blackwall</rs>
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and saw<lb></lb>
her safe there the next night being Sunday<lb></lb>
about Nine or Ten o Clock but that on<lb></lb>
Monday Morning when he went to look<lb></lb>
for her he found the said Boat had been<lb></lb>
feloniously Stolen taken and Rowed<lb></lb>
away And this Informant further<lb></lb>
saith that the Boat found in the possession<lb></lb>
of five persons now present who call<lb></lb>
themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n820-2">William Bateman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n820-3">George<lb></lb>
Bath</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n820-4">Thomas Warner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n820-5">Michael Doyle</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n820-6">William Watts</rs>
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is this<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Informt.<lb></lb>
property and was stole away at the<lb></lb>
time abovementioned and in the manner<lb></lb>
aforesaid And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n820-7">John<lb></lb>
Hodges</rs>
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for himself saith that on<lb></lb>
Saturday the 20th. of January instant<lb></lb>
between Eleven and twelve oClock at<lb></lb>
Night his Boat which was then lying<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo561">Execution Dock</rs>
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was feloniously<lb></lb>
stolen taken and Rowed away together<lb></lb>
with a pair of Wooden Scullers but</p>
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