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<p n="1217"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London to wit</note>
The joint and several Informations of Elizabeth<lb></lb>
the Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1217-2">William Martin</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1217-3">Snow Hill</rs>
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, London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ440">Victualler</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1217-4">Thomas Pickering</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1217-5">Wine Porter</rs>
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, who<lb></lb>
lodges at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1209">Nags Head</rs>
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Alehouse; in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1210">Aldersgate Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
London. Who being on Oath severally say, And First<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1217-6">Elizabeth Martin</rs>
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for herself saith, that on<lb></lb>
Wednesday Evening, she missed three Earthen Distres<lb></lb>
and six Earthen Plates out of her Houses, and she<lb></lb>
verily believes two of the Plates now produced, to be<lb></lb>
two of the Plates she missed, but as to the other<lb></lb>
Plates and Dishes, she cannot speak to from any<lb></lb>
Pattern or Mark And the said Thomas<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1211">Pickering</rs>
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for himself saith, that on Wednesday<lb></lb>
Afternoon about seven O'Clock, he was washing<lb></lb>
his hands in the Wash House of the abovenamed<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1217-7">William Martin</rs>
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, and heard a clattering of earthen<lb></lb>
Waer in the Necessary House which adjoins the<lb></lb>
Wash House Informant called out to know<lb></lb>
what was the Matter, and pushed the door of the<lb></lb>
Necessary open, when he saw the Prisoner, who<lb></lb>
told Informant he had borrowed a Plate to get some<lb></lb>
Salmon inthe Prisoner then came out with a<lb></lb>
bundle of PlatesInformant asked the Servant if<lb></lb>
she had missed any Plates, and being told she had,<lb></lb>
Informant Followed the Prisoner into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1212">Fleet Lane</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
and saw him offering the Dishes and Plates<lb></lb>
now produced, in a Shop there for Sale</p>
<p n="1218">Taken and sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1213">Guildhall</rs>
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<lb></lb>
London the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15092_date130">5th Day of October<lb></lb>
1781</rs>
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before me}</p>
<p n="1219"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1219-1">Evan Pugh</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15092_n1219-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</p>
<p n="1220">T Harley<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1220-1">Thos Pickering</rs>
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