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<p n="210"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15072_geo142">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n210-1">George<lb></lb>
Oxlade</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15072_occ109">Clerk in the General Post</rs>
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office Taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15072_date47">8th.<lb></lb>
day of Septr. 1761</rs>
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<p n="211">Who being on Oath says that he Yesterday went in Company<lb></lb>
with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n211-1">William Griffin</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n211-2">John Wright</rs>
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both belonging<lb></lb>
to the said office to the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n211-3">Daniel Carrington</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15072_occ110">Sorter in the said Office</rs>
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in order to Search for Letters suspected<lb></lb>
to be frandulently Secreted by said Carrington in Prejudice to<lb></lb>
the Revenue of the said Office, and this Informant says<lb></lb>
that upon such Search he found several Letters Looked<lb></lb>
upon in said Carrington's Buroe, which mentioned Cash to have been<lb></lb>
inclosed in such Letters, but that the said Letters were<lb></lb>
opened and<del>that</del>
the Cash Taken from thence and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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this Informt. further says that he verily beleives that the<lb></lb>
said Carrington broke open the said Letters and feloniously<lb></lb>
Took and carried away the several tims of Money<lb></lb>
therein continued and applied the same to his own Use<lb></lb>
says that he this day Searched<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a drawes in the said<lb></lb>
Post Office and a Closet in the Bed & Chambers of said Carrington<lb></lb>
in said Office and both belonging to him, wherein he found<lb></lb>
many Letters opened which likewise mentioned Money to have<lb></lb>
been therein inclosed but what as he verily beleives had<lb></lb>
been feloniusly Petitioner of them by said Carrington<lb></lb>
and Conserted to his over <obscured></obscured>
aforesaid</p>
<p n="212">Sworn before<lb></lb>
me the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15072_date48">8th. Septr.<lb></lb>
1761</rs>
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<p n="213"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n213-1">George Oxlade</rs>
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