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<p n="831"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo727">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n831-1">George Bemfleet</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n831-2">George Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n831-3">Richard Kirkby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n831-4">Cristopher John Hoggins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n831-5">John Oakes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n831-6">John<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n831-7">John Bartholomew</rs>
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Taken upon Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n831-8">George Reid</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ332">Esqr.</rs>
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One of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ333">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45037_date155">Third day of February 1789</rs>
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<p n="832">First this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n832-1">George Bemfleet</rs>
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upon<lb></lb>
his Oath saith that he <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ334">keeps a Shop</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo728">Sairlls Passage</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo729">Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
James Westminster</rs>
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in the said County and sleeps there and saith that about<lb></lb>
Nine O'Clock on Monday Evening the 26th. of January last he shut up his Shop<lb></lb>
and packed up Twenty eight Gold Seals in order to take them home to his<lb></lb>
Lodging in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo730">Carnaby Street</rs>
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but forgot to take them away and left them on a<lb></lb>
Bench in the shop upon getting house he recollected the having left those<lb></lb>
seals and returned to his Shop to fetch them on coming to the door he saw two-<lb></lb>
Men coming out of the Shop upon which he was alarmed and asked them<lb></lb>
what they did there when they Immediately ran away and were pursued<lb></lb>
by this Informant up <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo731">Saville Row</rs>
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calling out stop Thief one of the said<lb></lb>
Men who Proves to be <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n832-2">Stephen Reynolds</rs>
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was taken and brought back to<lb></lb>
this Informants Shop when the Twenty one Gold Seals three cases of<lb></lb>
Mathematical Instruments and several other things now produced were<lb></lb>
found upon him and are the property of this Informant: And this<lb></lb>
Informant further Saith when he left the shop about Nine OClock he<lb></lb>
not only shut the door thereof but Double locked it and when he came to<lb></lb>
examine the Lock he found it had been forced open by some Instrument or<lb></lb>
other And this Informant further saith that he well remembers<lb></lb>
a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n832-3">John Harding</rs>
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did a few days<lb></lb>
before the Robbery come into this Informant's shop under Pretence of<lb></lb>
wanting to purchase a Gold seal but did not purchase any they were all<lb></lb>
too high Prized and he would call again And this Informant also<lb></lb>
particularly remembers that on the night of the robbery and a very short<lb></lb>
time before this Informant left his Shop the person now present who<lb></lb>
calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n832-4">Joseph Pocock</rs>
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came into his Shop and purchased a Sheet<lb></lb>
of Cartridge Paper for which he paid Three Farthings And this<lb></lb>
Informant Does now believe that the coming of the said two Men to his<lb></lb>
Shop as aforesaid was only with a design to examine into its situation</p>
<p n="833"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n833-1">George Bunfleet</rs>
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<p n="834">Secondly <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n834-1">George Smith</rs>
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upon his Oath saith that he<lb></lb>
is an <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ335">apprentice</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n834-2">George Bemfleet</rs>
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and was with his <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ336">Master</rs>
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when he<lb></lb>
left his shop on Monday night last and saw his Master shut up the same-<lb></lb>
and double Lock the door And this Informant further saith that about<lb></lb>
nine oClock of the said night he was shutting up the door when the person<lb></lb>
now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n834-3">Joseph Pocock</rs>
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went into the Shop and asked his<lb></lb>
Master for a Sheet of Cartridge paper and was served with the same by his<lb></lb>
said Master</p>
<p n="835"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n835-1">George Smith</rs>
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