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<p n="911"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo563">Middlesex</rs>
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The Informations of James Wernham, Carpenter to<lb></lb>
the Right Honble. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n911-1">Lord Southampton</rs>
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at the Grove house Highgate<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n911-2">Thomas Cox</rs>
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at Fitzroy. farm near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo564">Highgate</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ169">Labourer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n911-3">Joseph Empy</rs>
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of Hentish town Smith <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n911-4">William Whitsey</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo565">Highgate Hill</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ170">Labourer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n911-5">John Bateman</rs>
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of the Castle <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo566">Kentish town</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ171">Victualer</rs>
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taken on Oath<lb></lb>
before met this 27th. day of July 1789.</p>
<p n="912">Who being on Oath say and first the said James Wernham for<lb></lb>
himself says that sometime between Tuesday morning and Thursday<lb></lb>
morning last <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
was Ripped Cut and taken away from<lb></lb>
off the Farm house near Highgate called Fitzroy farm a Quantity of<lb></lb>
Lead the property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-1">Lord Southampton</rs>
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and that he verily<lb></lb>
beleives the Lead now produced to be the same as was so Stolen as<lb></lb>
aforesaid And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-2">Thomas Cox</rs>
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for himself says that he is<lb></lb>
employed at Fitzroy farm by the said Lord Southampon that the<lb></lb>
Sack now produced is the property of his Lordship and was taken<lb></lb>
away from the said farm in the night of Wednesday or early on<lb></lb>
Thursday morning last And the said Joseph Empy for himself says<lb></lb>
that on Thursday morning last between the hours of seven and eight<lb></lb>
o Clock at the bottom of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo567">Highgate hill</rs>
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he saw the two persons now present<lb></lb>
who calls themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-3">William Crosdale</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-4">John Leason</rs>
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pass by his<lb></lb>
Shop in Company together that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-5">William Crosdale</rs>
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had the Sack now produced across<lb></lb>
his Shoulders immediately after which <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-6">William Whitsey</rs>
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came up and<lb></lb>
this Informant said to him "I dare say those two men (meaning the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-7">William Crosdale</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-8">John Leason</rs>
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) have got some thing that they<lb></lb>
should not have and had not come honestly by that this Informant<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-9">William Whitsey</rs>
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pursued them and they were taken into<lb></lb>
Custody And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-10">William Whitsey</rs>
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for himself says that he pursued<lb></lb>
the said two persons <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-11">William Crosdale</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-12">John Leason</rs>
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with the said<lb></lb>
Informant Joseph Empy and took the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-13">William Crosdale</rs>
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<lb></lb>
with the sack now produced on his back and the Lead therein that<lb></lb>
Informant asked said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-14">William Crosdale</rs>
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how he came by said Sack<lb></lb>
and Lead who replied that it dropp'd out of a Cart and that he<lb></lb>
picked it up And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n912-15">John Bateman</rs>
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for himself says.</p>
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