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<p n="69"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo49">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of John<lb></lb>
Skudder Foreman to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n69-1">Matthew Burchell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the Kings Road in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo50">Parish of<lb></lb>
Fulham</rs>
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Nursery man the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n69-2">Matthew Burchell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n69-3">Lucy Holder</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n69-4">James Holder</rs>
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of No. 225<lb></lb>
Strand Stick Manufacturer and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n69-5">Edward Evans</rs>
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Servant to the Said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n69-6">James Holder</rs>
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taken before me this<lb></lb>
4th. day of March 1788</p>
<p n="70">Who being upon Oath severally say and first<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n70-1">John Skudder</rs>
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for himself says that on<lb></lb>
Thursday the 28th. day of February last he was at<lb></lb>
Work in his Masters Nursery till Six o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
Evening at which time all the Yew Trees in his<lb></lb>
Masters Nursery were safe That about ten<lb></lb>
Minutes after six the next Morning he discovered<lb></lb>
that many of the Yew Trees had been cut and<lb></lb>
Stolen in that part of the Nursery near Elisiam<lb></lb>
Row amounting in Number as he believes to<lb></lb>
twelve or Fifteen and further Says that between<lb></lb>
Six and seven on the said Thursday Night he<lb></lb>
met a Man in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo51">back Lane</rs>
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near the Nursery<lb></lb>
whom he verily believes to be the person now<lb></lb>
present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n70-2">Richard Burton</rs>
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<p n="71">And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n71-1">Matthew Burchell</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
Says that on Thursday Night the 28th. of February<lb></lb>
last Fifteen Sticks of yew Plants were cut and<lb></lb>
Stolen in his said Nursery and is very sure that<lb></lb>
Fifteen Yew Plants now produced by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n71-2">James Holder</rs>
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