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<p n="702"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15083_geo462">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n702-1">William Hampton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n702-2">John Bryant</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15083_date62">22nd. day of May 1772</rs>
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<p n="703">Who being upon Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-1">William Hampton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself says that he has lived <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15083_occ251">Servant</rs>
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with Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-2">John Gross</rs>
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<lb></lb>
late of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15083_geo463">Garret</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15083_geo464">Surry</rs>
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about three Years partly is <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15083_occ252">Driver of a<lb></lb>
Cart</rs>
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and partly as an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15083_occ253">Apprentice</rs>
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that in the Beginning of<lb></lb>
April last as he was sharing his Master the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-3">John Gross</rs>
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he<lb></lb>
asked this Informant whether he was willing to go abroad<lb></lb>
saying he would make a Man of him says he this<lb></lb>
Informant consented, says he carried at three different<lb></lb>
Times to Mr Seath Linen Draper<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15083_geo465">Westminster Bridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Months of March and April last between two & three<lb></lb>
hundred pieces of Cottons & Linens from the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-4">John Gross</rs>
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's<lb></lb>
by the Orders of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-5">John Gross</rs>
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, says he also carried<lb></lb>
above a hundred pieces of Linens & Cottons to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-6">Wm Bedwell</rs>
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's<lb></lb>
in Standgate Street<del>Weston</del>
Lambeth some of which were printed<lb></lb>
& some unprinted and when the said Goods were put into Boxes<lb></lb>
he carried them to the Water Side & put them in a Boat in Order<lb></lb>
to be put on board a Ship the Name of which he has since<lb></lb>
been informed is the <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-7">John Galley</rs>
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, says that about a Fortnight<lb></lb>
ago he went to Deal with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-8">Thomas Bedwell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-9">William Lange</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15083_occ254">Block Cutter</rs>
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where<lb></lb>
he met with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-10">John Gross</rs>
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and staid there until the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-11">John Gross</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-12">Thomas Bedwell</rs>
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were apprehended<lb></lb>
and the said<del>William</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-17">John Bryant</rs>
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for himself says that he lately<lb></lb>
lived Servant with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-14">John Gross</rs>
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, that on the Monday<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-15">John Gross</rs>
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left home in Order to go abroad he<lb></lb>
this Informant carried about 60 pieces of presented Cotton<lb></lb>
and Linens from the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15083_n703-16">John Gross</rs>
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's by his order, to</p>
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