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<p n="141"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15070_geo126">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15070_n141-1">John Wilson</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me one of His Majesty's Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace in and for the said County</p>
<p n="142">Who being on Oath saith that he is Partner<lb></lb>
with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15070_n142-1">Thomas Thornhill</rs>
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and they Carry on the business of<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15070_occ49">Grocer</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15070_geo127">St Pauls Church yard </rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15070_geo128">City of London</rs>
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and this Informt: saith that a person now present who<lb></lb>
calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15070_n142-2">John Ridgway</rs>
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was employed by this<lb></lb>
Informant in the Capacity of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15070_occ50">Porter</rs>
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and this Informt:<obscured></obscured>
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had intimation that the sd Ridgway pilfered Tea &<lb></lb>
other Goods out of this Informt: shop this Inform: chargd<lb></lb>
the sd: Ridgway with the fact when he confessed that he<lb></lb>
had taken a small quantity of Tea out of this Informts:<lb></lb>
Shop upon which this Informt: insisted upon Searching<lb></lb>
the sd Ridgway's room which was in<obscured></obscured>
ather Lane and<lb></lb>
in a Box in the sd Room this Informt: found the Several<lb></lb>
parcels of Tea Chocolate and Sugar now produced<lb></lb>
which Sd: Tea Chocolate and Sugar the sd: Ridgway<lb></lb>
Confessed he had taken from this Informt: the sd Chocolate<lb></lb>
being marked W. it J. which is the mark placed upon<lb></lb>
the Chocolate made at this Informts: Shop.</p>
<p n="143">J Wilson</p>
<p n="144">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15070_date28">15 June 1759</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15070_n144-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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