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<p n="144"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo101">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n144-1">Thomas Geens</rs>
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at No. 20 Hall Street<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo102">Parish of Christ Church</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo103">Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ20">Weaver</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
Mary this Wife. And <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n144-2">Richard Stanley</rs>
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at No. 4 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo104">Upper East<lb></lb>
Smithfield</rs>
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in the said County Pawnbroker taken this 23rd day of May 1789<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n144-3">Thomas Geens</rs>
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on his oath saith on Thursday morning the 20 Instant<lb></lb>
he went from home leaving the Watch chain and Seal produced hanging<lb></lb>
on a Nail near the fire place in his Room about Two hour after<lb></lb>
his Wife came and told him their Servant was gone and the said<lb></lb>
watch that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n144-4">Susannah Richards</rs>
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and himself went different ways<lb></lb>
in pursuit and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n144-5">Susannah Richards</rs>
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met said Servant the prisoner<lb></lb>
present who together name is Catherine Taster and brought her to<lb></lb>
him who owned soon after that she had taken the said Watch<lb></lb>
and where she pawned it</p>
<p n="145"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n145-1">Thomas Geenes</rs>
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<p n="146"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n146-1">Mary Geens</rs>
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on her oath saith on Thursday morning last about the hour of<lb></lb>
Eleven The went out to market and left said Watch hanging ever<lb></lb>
the mantle piece and their Servant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n146-2">Catherine Tasker</rs>
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to look after<lb></lb>
the houseSays the returned before the hour of Twelve when she<lb></lb>
found the Door locked and the Key laying in the EntryThat she<lb></lb>
opened the Door missed the Watch found the Servant gone she<lb></lb>
went and told her husband what had happened.</p>
<p n="147">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n147-1">MaryGeenes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
mark</p>
<p n="148"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n148-1">Richard Stanley</rs>
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on his oath saith on Thursday last about the Middle<lb></lb>
of the Day <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n148-2">Catherine Tasker</rs>
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brought the Watch as produced to pledge<lb></lb>
and asked a Guinea upon it says he asked of the Watch was her<lb></lb>
own who answered no that her Father had sent her with it to get<lb></lb>
him out of troubleSays he lent her Fifteen Shillings and because he<lb></lb>
would not lend her more she pledged o Coloured Apron for one<lb></lb>
Shillings</p>
<p n="149">Taken and Sworn<lb></lb>
The 23rd of Mary 1789</p>
<p n="150">Before us <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n150-1">John Staples</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Samr. Hawkins</p>
<p n="151"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n151-1">Richard Stanley</rs>
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<p n="152"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n152-1">Catherine Tasker</rs>
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says when she first took the said Watch on<lb></lb>
Thursday last at noon from where it was hanging in her masters<lb></lb>
room she went first to a Pawnbrokers in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo105">Whitechapel</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
to another who would not take it Says she directly went to the<lb></lb>
house of Mr. Stanley and pledged it with Mr. Stanley for fifteen<lb></lb>
Shillings and had a Duplicate which she tore, further says<lb></lb>
she likewise pawned o Coloured Apron which she took of her<lb></lb>
masters bed and pawned it fore Shilling to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n152-2">Mr. Stanley</rs>
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<p n="153">Taken and Signed<lb></lb>
This 23rd day of May 1789<lb></lb>
Before us</p>
<p n="154"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n154-1">John Staples</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Samr. Hawkins</p>
<p n="155">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n155-1">Catherine<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Tasker</rs>
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Mark</p>
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