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<p n="707"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London to wit</note>
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The Information of Edward John Aplin<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ313">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n707-1">Thomas Tookey</rs>
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of Monkwell Street<lb></lb>
London, Working <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ314">Silversmith</rs>
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, Who being on Oath<lb></lb>
saith, that about half an hour after eight O'Clock<lb></lb>
last Night, he was going down <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo654">Ludgate Hill</rs>
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, in<lb></lb>
his Way to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n707-2">Tavistock Street</rs>
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, with Six Silver desert<lb></lb>
Spoons and a pair of silver tea tongs, to be taken to<lb></lb>
a Customer of his Master'sSays, that at the End<lb></lb>
of a Court Next before <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo655">the Bell Savage Inn</rs>
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, the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ315">Prisoner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n707-3">Mary Floyd</rs>
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, now under Examination<lb></lb>
stood with another Woman not<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
present<lb></lb>
the Prisoner accosted Informant, and taking hold of<lb></lb>
his right Arm, she pulled him close to a door way<lb></lb>
Informant endeavoured to exticate himself from her<lb></lb>
hold, and seeing his handkerchief nearly out of<lb></lb>
his Pocket, he got away from the Prisoner, as he<lb></lb>
was satisfied had an Intention to steal his handkerchief<lb></lb>
Informant walked away about ten Yards, down<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo656">Ludgate Hill</rs>
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, and then the six Spoons and the tea<lb></lb>
tongs occused to him, and upon searching his<lb></lb>
Pocket, where the handkerchief was, and where he<lb></lb>
had put the Plate, the same was missingInformant<lb></lb>
instantly returned to the Spot where he was accosted<lb></lb>
by the Prisoner, and Found, that she was gone<lb></lb>
Informant went by the way of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo657">Fleet market</rs>
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into<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo658">Fleet Lane</rs>
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, Where he met the Prisoner, and laid<lb></lb>
hold of her, charging her with stealing the six Spoons<lb></lb>
and tea tongsthe Prisoner said Informant much<lb></lb>
have dropt them at the Place, where they stood together<lb></lb>
Informant and the Prisoner went together there, and<lb></lb>
she stooped down as though to pick up something when<lb></lb>
Informant heard the Prisoner drop the Five Spoons,<lb></lb>
and the tea tongs now Produced, which are the same<lb></lb>
he lost in manner aforesaid, are the Property of his<lb></lb>
Master, and of the Value of Forty Shillings and</p>
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