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<p n="1884"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1165">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1884-1">Simon Goldsmith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1884-2">Harry Goodes</rs>
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<del>George</del>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1884-3">William Eldridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1166">Wembley</rs>
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in the County of Oxford<lb></lb>
taken before me this 28th. day of October<lb></lb>
1788</p>
<p n="1885">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1885-1">Simon<lb></lb>
Goldsmith</rs>
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says that on Thursday the 15th. of October instant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1885-2">Joseph Parsons</rs>
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late a day Labourer at Wembley Green<lb></lb>
brought to this Informant to be shed, the black Horse<lb></lb>
claimed by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1885-3">William Batten</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1167">Setsworth</rs>
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in Oxfordshire<lb></lb>
and now at the Green Man at Wimbley -- That Informant<lb></lb>
asked said Parson the price of him who replied that he<lb></lb>
was not to be fold, that he belonged to his Master who<lb></lb>
was bid 15 Guineas for him at Charlberry Fair who<lb></lb>
would not part with him for Twenty -- That after<lb></lb>
the Horse was shed said Parsons rode away, upon<lb></lb>
him -- And the said Harry Goodes for himself saith that<lb></lb>
he was at said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1885-4">Simon Goldsmith</rs>
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's Shop at this time<lb></lb>
and heard the before mentioned conversation pass between<lb></lb>
the said Goldsmith and said Parsons and that on the<lb></lb>
Friday morning the said Horse was brought to this<lb></lb>
Informants Stables by<del>the said will</del>
himself he having <lb></lb>
found it upon Wimbley Common -- And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1885-5">William<lb></lb>
Eldridge</rs>
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for himself saith that he was also present at,<lb></lb>
said Goldsmith Shop and saw said Parsons go away<lb></lb>
with said Black Horse - That in about an hour afterwards<lb></lb>
about a Mile and a half from thence he saw said parsons<lb></lb>
upon another Horse when he asked said Parson what he had<lb></lb>
done with the Black Horse, who replied he had sent him in <lb></lb>
astring of Horse to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1168">Smithfield</rs>
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and then asked this</p>
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