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<p n="1877"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1161">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1877-1">John Newman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Articled Servant to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1877-2">Richard George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of Holywell Street <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ405">Mercer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1877-3">Samuel<lb></lb>
Mecking</rs>
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of No.2 Elm Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1162">Grays<lb></lb>
Inn Lane</rs>
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Stocking maker and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1877-4">John<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ406">Shopman</rs>
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to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1877-5">Richard<lb></lb>
George</rs>
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taken before me this 28th.<lb></lb>
day of October 1788</p>
<p n="1878">Who being upon Oath severally Say and First<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1878-1">John Norman</rs>
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for himself says that<lb></lb>
this Evening between six and seven o'Clock as he<lb></lb>
was putting up the Shutters of his Masters Shop<lb></lb>
in Holywell Street a Person in a dark loose<lb></lb>
great Coat came to him and asked him the way<lb></lb>
to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1163">London Bridge</rs>
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when he directed him and upon<lb></lb>
this Informants turning round towards the Shop<lb></lb>
Door which was instantly he saw a Person now<lb></lb>
Present who calls himself Michael Donaty<lb></lb>
came past him and as he thought out of the Shop<lb></lb>
with Stuffs wrapped in a Paper but what they<lb></lb>
were he cannot say and suspecting that said<lb></lb>
Michael Donaty had been in his Mastors Shop<lb></lb>
and stolen the contents wrapped in the Paper he<lb></lb>
went in and discovered five or six Pieces of<lb></lb>
Figured Stuffs and Cambletts had been taken out <lb></lb>
of his Masters Shop Window during the time he had<lb></lb>
left it which was not above a minute That he <lb></lb>
then</p>
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