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<p n="1034"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1043">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1034-1">Henry Gimber</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1034-2">John Noel</rs>
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Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Donnelly and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1034-3">William Warre</rs>
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' taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15092_date113">13th..<lb></lb>
day of August 1781</rs>
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<p n="1035">Who being upon Oath says and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1035-1">Henry Gimber</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that on Tuesday the 7th. day of August instant between two and three oClock in the<lb></lb>
morning, as he was passing along <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1044">Featherbed Lane</rs>
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near Fetter Lane in the City<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1045">London</rs>
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, he was seized hold of behind by his Arm's something held against<lb></lb>
his Mouth, and his Throat pinchedThat immediately or his being so seized<lb></lb>
hold of a Silon Watch makers Name Colliber London with a glass Cock<lb></lb>
was taken by Violence out of his pocketThat when his Watch was taken<lb></lb>
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he saw three Men run away from him towards Fetter LaneThe said John<lb></lb>
Noel says that between the hours of seven and eight o Clock a person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1035-2">John Watts</rs>
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came to the Informants Lodgings at the Blackamoon<lb></lb>
head in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1046">Exeter Street</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1047">the Strand</rs>
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, and called him upThat said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1035-3">John Watts</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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gave him a Silver Watch and desired him to pledge it for himThat he<lb></lb>
went with said Watch to Mrs. Rockfords Pawnbroker in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1048">Bridges Street</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
asked £1..5s..0d upon the same, but they refused to advance so much Money on it;<lb></lb>
on which he delivered it back to said Watts, and he went away with it<lb></lb>
The said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1035-4">Elizabeth Donnelly</rs>
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says that she is Servant to Mrs. Rockford the<lb></lb>
Pawnbroker, and that on the Tuesday morning aforesaid the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1035-5">John Noel</rs>
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<lb></lb>
did offer<del>to</del>
her to Pledge<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a Silver WatchThe said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1035-6">William Warre</rs>
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'<lb></lb>
says that he is also a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ364">Servant</rs>
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to said<del>Mess</del>
Mrs. Rockford, and was in the<lb></lb>
Shop when the said Watch was offered to pledge. That he doth not recollect<lb></lb>
the person who offered it to pledge, but is very sure that said Watch so<lb></lb>
offered, had a Glass Cock and as he doth verily believe was makers Name<lb></lb>
Colliber or CollibeerAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1035-7">Henry Gimber</rs>
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says that from the<lb></lb>
Description given of said Watch by said Warre' he doth verily believe</p>
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