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<p n="697"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15083_geo457">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n697-1">Charles Graves</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15083_date61">20th. day of May 1772</rs>
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<p n="698">Who being upon Oath says he is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15083_occ250">Linen Draper</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15083_geo458">Cheapside</rs>
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that on the 28th: day of March last this Informant deliver'd to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n698-1">John Gross</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n698-2">Thomas Bedwell</rs>
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now present sixty pieces of<lb></lb>
Cottons to be printed, the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n698-3">John Gross</rs>
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having about a fortnight<lb></lb>
before applied to this Informant for Goods to print for him and<lb></lb>
shewed him Patterns, that he has since found upwards of fifty<lb></lb>
of the said pieces of Cottons on board the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15083_geo459">John Galley</rs>
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bound for<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15083_geo460">Boston</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15083_geo461">New England</rs>
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, that the Marks are cut off from the said<lb></lb>
pieces of Cottons and that they are not printed nor begun to be<lb></lb>
printed, that he has been credibly informed and verily believes<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n698-5">John Gross</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n698-6">Thomas Bedwell</rs>
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caused the said<lb></lb>
Cottons ot be put on board the Said Vessel and that they intended<lb></lb>
to quit England and take this Informant's said Goods with them</p>
<p n="699"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n699-1">Chas. Graves</rs>
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<p n="700">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
May 20th. 1772}</p>
<p n="701">J Holding</p>
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