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<p n="968"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo970">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n968-1">Robert Beck</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ344">Apprentice</rs>
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of Thomas<lb></lb>
Davis of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo971">Bishopsgate Street</rs>
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London Pawnbroker taken<lb></lb>
and made on Oath before me one of his Majestys Jusices<lb></lb>
of the peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo972">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the 4th. day of<lb></lb>
August 1781.</p>
<p n="969">Who on his Oath saith that on the 8rd. day of August<lb></lb>
Instant about four or five o'Clock there was feloniously<lb></lb>
stolen from his Masters Shop Door in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo973">Bishopsgate Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
aforesaid (where it hung up) one<del>linen</del>
Catton Gown the property<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n969-1">Thomas Davis</rs>
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of the value of ten Shillings.<lb></lb>
That just before the same was stolen one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n969-2">Mary Jones</rs>
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came<lb></lb>
into the said Shop and cheapened a Gown but not agreeing<lb></lb>
for the same immediately went out again. That on her<lb></lb>
going out of the Shop this Informant being informed by<lb></lb>
his Fellow Apprentice that he thought a Gown had been<lb></lb>
taken from the Door, this Informant went out into the<lb></lb>
Street and followed the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n969-3">Mary Jones</rs>
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and found concealed<lb></lb>
in her Apron the said Cotton Gown Stolen from his<lb></lb>
said Master Shop as aforesaid.</p>
<p n="970">Taken and sworn the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15092_date100">4th. day of August 1781</rs>
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before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n970-1">D Wilmot</rs>
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<p n="971"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n971-1">Robert Beck</rs>
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