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<p n="312"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo263">Middlesex</rs>
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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n312-1">Anna Humphries</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n312-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Farguson</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n312-5">James Southgate</rs>
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, Taken upon Oath<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n312-6">George Reid </rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ105">Esqr</rs>
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. one of This Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ106">Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45037_date63">8th. day of Janry.<lb></lb>
1789</rs>
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<p n="313">First this Informant Ann a Humphries<lb></lb>
upon her Oath saith that she hath every reason to<lb></lb>
suspect that a Man who calls himself by the Name<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n313-1">John Wilson</rs>
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did on Wednesday the 7th. day of Janry<lb></lb>
Inst. feloniously taken and Cary a way from her a Guineas<lb></lb>
in Gold Nine Shillings in Silver, a Silver Thimble & a<lb></lb>
Black Pettycoat the Property of her this said Informant</p>
<p n="314">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n314-1">Anna<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Humphries</rs>
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Mark</p>
<p n="315">Secondly Thomas Farguson upon his Oath saith that<lb></lb>
about the hour of Eight in the Evening of Wednesday the<lb></lb>
7th. Inst. he was at a Public house called and known<lb></lb>
by the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo264">sign of the Black horse in Shug Lane</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said County and saw the above named <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n315-1">Anna Humphries</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and the Prisoner come into the aforesaid house and<lb></lb>
drink together and after Sitting down some little time<lb></lb>
he saw the Prisoner Put his hand in her Pocket and draw it out again after which he<del>and</del>
<lb></lb>
was<del>attempting to go</del>
going out of doors, when this deponent<lb></lb>
asked him where he was going and some Suspicion<lb></lb>
arising he caught hold of him, and took the Petty coat<lb></lb>
from him and asked where <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo265">the change</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Half Guinea was which he had received at the<lb></lb>
bar of the said house he said he had got it and<lb></lb>
that it was his own Property he this deponent<lb></lb>
then went for a Constable and had him secured<lb></lb>
upon suspicion of committing the said Robbery<lb></lb>
And further this deponent saith that the pettycoat<lb></lb>
now Produced is<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Identical Pettycoat he<lb></lb>
took from the Prisoner and which Proves to better<lb></lb>
Property of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n315-2">Anna Humphries</rs>
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<p n="316">her<lb></lb>
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Farguson</rs>
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Mark</p>
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