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The Informations of James Wernham, Carpenter to
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the Right Honble.
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of Hentish town Smith
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of the Castle
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taken on Oath
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Who being on Oath say and first the said James Wernham for
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off the Farm house near Highgate called Fitzroy farm a Quantity of
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Lead the property of the said
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and that he verily
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beleives the Lead now produced to be the same as was so Stolen as
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for himself says that he is
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employed at Fitzroy farm by the said Lord Southampon that the
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Sack now produced is the property of his Lordship and was taken
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Thursday morning last And the said Joseph Empy for himself says
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that on Thursday morning last between the hours of seven and eight
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had the Sack now produced across
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his Shoulders immediately after which
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came up and
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this Informant said to him "I dare say those two men (meaning the said
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) have got some thing that they
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with the said
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Informant Joseph Empy and took the said
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with the sack now produced on his back and the Lead therein that
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Informant asked said
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William Crosdale
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how he came by said Sack
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and Lead who replied that it dropp'd out of a Cart and that he
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picked it up And the said
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John Bateman
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