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27 Dec 1788
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Mr. Colliester at
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on his Oath
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Yesterday morning he went from the Room he his in the Said house at which
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The Custain Quilt Street and produced his property Value Two Shillings and
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expence were safe The door Locked. That this morning about the hour of nine he.
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heard that he had been robbed
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on his Oath Saith last night about the hour of nine he heard that the
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was robbed being in Liquor objected to hearing him
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or her Oath Saith the prisoner at the Bar were yesterday Several times in the
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afternoon at had husbands house until Six at night when they went away and a little after nine as She was in the bar with Mrs.
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Rossiter She heard a Sudden psh which Shoot the bar She ordered her Servant Jane to take a light go and see what was the Matter on the
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Stairs without the house which the lodgers go their apartments without coming through the House. That her Servant took a light and wentant
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Mrs. Rossiter to See what was the Matter and almost
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to heard them cry thiefs. She run into the tap room where was Mr. Wiliam who frist wentant
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other followed The Girl came in with the Sheet and Shirt produced which she thought at frist to be her Servant Said it Mr. Collisters.that Wiltshire
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came in and Said the Thief was off but he had got his when she said give it me I will keep it, That her Said Servant Said it was
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put She would
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it Say having That afternoon pulled the thread of
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from the place where it was
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that she have Said at up the bar and sent for
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Father
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who came and Said he would Sworn that the Said but was her sons hat which
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bar to give
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of Lion
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on her Oath Saith last Night about the hour of nine as she was Sitting with Mrs.
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Jefferson in the bar She heard Some thing fall on the Ground
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that Mrs. Jefferson
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that She went out with Said Girl who had a Light in her hand and
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the Girl Said She Saw man Hand on the Lead that She herself locked and saw
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a Man with Something a white that she called out thief Says She cannot Say
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with certainty if either of the person present who Say their names are
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is the person She Saw as aforesaidThat She went up
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Stairs unto Mr. Collisters Room and found a pane of glass taken but of the Casement
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Something white lay on the lead what it was She dont know
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Butcher
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on his Oath Saith last night about a Quarter past nine as he was Sitting in the Tap
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room of
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John Jefferson
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he heard the out cry of Stop thief he run out with a Candler
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</
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in his hand he run out to the fast of the Stair on the out side the that he
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</
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Catched at a person coming off the Stair and laid hold of his hat and hair that another
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lb
>
</
lb
>
person jumped off Said Stairs and baet him down and he the thinks the man he had hold
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
off who got away was
<
obscured
>
</
obscured
>
That Mr Jefferson informing him who the person were.
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lb
>
</
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>
they went to the Lodgings of
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Joseph Darrell
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>
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>
No. 36 in Red mead Lane
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>
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</
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not funding him
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
returned to Jefferson and about half un hour after hearing hear Dorrell was at
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
home in the mean time Dorrells father came to Jefferson and Claimed the Said hat
<
obscured
>
</
obscured
>
being
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
his SonsThat went and apprehended
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rs
type
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id
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>
Joseph Dorrell
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>
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>
on Suspicion of having
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lb
>
</
lb
>
robbed the Room of
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id
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>
Charles Mr. Collister
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>
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interp
inst
=
"LMOBPS45037_n398-7"
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=
"Charles"
>
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>
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=
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=
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=
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>
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inst
=
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=
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=
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>
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>
<
p
n
=
"399"
>
<
rs
type
=
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>
Charles Wiltshire
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>
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inst
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type
=
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=
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inst
=
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=
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=
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>
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interp
inst
=
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>
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>
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p
n
=
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>
Taken and Sworn the
<
rs
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=
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>
27 th day of December 1788
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>
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=
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=
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>
Before me
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rs
type
=
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>
John Staples
</
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>
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=
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=
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=
"John"
>
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interp
>
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interp
inst
=
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=
"surname"
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=
"Staples"
>
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interp
>
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inst
=
"LMOBPS45037_n400-1"
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=
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=
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>
</
interp
>
<
rs
type
=
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=
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>
Esqr
</
rs
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMOBPS45037_occ136"
type
=
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=
"Esqr"
>
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interp
>
. one of His Majesty's
<
rs
type
=
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>
Justice of the Peace
</
rs
>
<
interp
inst
=
"LMOBPS45037_occ137"
type
=
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=
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>
in and for the
<
rs
type
=
"placeName"
id
=
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>
County of Middlesex
</
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>
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=
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>
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type
=
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=
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interp
>
</
p
>
</
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>
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