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<p n="1223"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1110">Middlesex</rs>
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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1223-1">John Barber</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1111">King Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1113">County of Kent</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ492">Waterman</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1223-2">John Ellis</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ493">Apprentice</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1223-3">John Wood</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1114">High Street</rs>
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Shudid O Dilot Taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45037_date213">First day<lb></lb>
April 1789</rs>
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before me One of his Majestys Justices of the Peace in and<lb></lb>
for the said County.</p>
<p n="1224">Who being on their Oaths Severally Say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1224-1">John Barker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself Saith that On Saturday night last between Eight and nine<lb></lb>
O Clock. he made Fast his Bout to one of the Chains at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1115">upper Water<lb></lb>
Gate at Deptford</rs>
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. That about Ten O Clock on Sunday night he went<lb></lb>
down to See if his Boat was Safe when he discovered she had been taken<lb></lb>
away by some person or persons to this Informant unknown, That the<lb></lb>
next morning he was Informed by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1224-2">Thomas Jones</rs>
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that his Boat was<lb></lb>
detained at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1116">Bill Wharf</rs>
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for having hurt, Stolen Goods in her, That he<lb></lb>
Accordingly came to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1117">Bill Wharf </rs>
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and Saw the said Boat which<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
is the Boat he so fastened in Saturday night last at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1118">Upper Water Gate</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and had been taken away as aforesaidAnd this Informant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1224-3">John Ellis</rs>
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for himself Saith that between Ten and Eleven O Clock on<lb></lb>
Sunday night last he was going with a Tare from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1119">Bell Wharf</rs>
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On Board<lb></lb>
the Ship William lying in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1120">Bill Wharf </rs>
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half Tier, and that he saw a Boat<lb></lb>
in which were two men quitlong off from the Bow of the Vessell to Drop<lb></lb>
a Stern when Informant diseveral the Harvser now produced hanging<lb></lb>
a longside the Cable which appeared to those Informant to have been Cut with<lb></lb>
a Knife, Saith<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the man<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
(who had the Hutts) then Rowed away<lb></lb>
and Informant Suspecting that they were the persons who had Cut the said Rope<lb></lb>
Rowed after them and when he got alongside asked where they were going<lb></lb>
who replied they were going home but that if Informant would go down to<lb></lb>
Stones Stairs they or he would Settle it with him when they precipitately rowed<lb></lb>
away to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1121">Ratcliff Cross</rs>
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and Informant after them and upon<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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their Landing at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1122">Ratcliff Cross</rs>
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he called out Stop Thief when they ran up the<lb></lb>
<del> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1123">Stepney</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1124">Causeway</rs>
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and Endeavered to Escaped that One of the Men did get away<lb></lb>
but the person now present who says his Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1224-4">John Lindsay</rs>
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was Soon<lb></lb>
after Stopped by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1224-5">John Brock</rs>
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and secured and brought 10 Informant.<lb></lb>
And that he verily believes he is one of the persons who was in the Boat and<lb></lb>
who ran away on his calling out Stop Thief.</p>
<p n="1225">Taken and Sworn the dan and<lb></lb>
Year first above written before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1225-1">Peter Greene</rs>
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<p n="1226"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1226-1">John Barber</rs>
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<lb></lb>
his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1226-2">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Ellis</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark.</p>
<p n="1227"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1227-1">John Lindsay</rs>
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Says that One Sunday night last about half part Eleven O Clock<lb></lb>
Surname from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1125">Deptford</rs>
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in a Boat to See a Trund in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1126">London</rs>
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and that he was<lb></lb>
Taken soon after he Landid but at what Stairs he knows not by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1227-2">John Brock</rs>
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<p n="1228">Taken Signed and declare of to be<lb></lb>
the Truth the day and year first above written<lb></lb>
before me</p>
<p n="1229"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1229-1">Peter Green</rs>
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<p n="1230">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1230-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Lindsay</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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