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<p n="243"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo249">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n243-1">John Priestley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n243-2">Thomas Wright</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n243-3">Ann Good</rs>
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John and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n243-4">John Beamish</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15094_date50">28th. day of March 1783</rs>
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<p n="244">Who on their Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n244-1">John Priestley</rs>
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says, that<lb></lb>
his House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo250">Thames Street</rs>
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London was burglariously broke<lb></lb>
open on Tuesday night the 18th. Instant, and two pound weight<lb></lb>
of Mace a Box with a pair of Money-seales and weights,<lb></lb>
a Silver gravy Spoon, a Silver Wine strainer, a silver Bottle<lb></lb>
Lable, and three Salt Spoons, were feloniously stolen therein<lb></lb>
That a Box with Money Seales now produced he is very<lb></lb>
sure are his property and are the same which were so<lb></lb>
stolen; and does verily believe that a Quantity of Mace now<lb></lb>
produced is the same Mace which was stolen from him<lb></lb>
as aforesaid That a small<obscured></obscured>
Crow, a Chizzle<del>and</del>
a large<lb></lb>
Gimblet and a Dark Lanthorn now produced, were found in<lb></lb>
this Informant's house and left there by the Robber or Robbers<lb></lb>
And further says that a person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n244-3">William Rutley</rs>
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Pratt, had, at this time been Discharged from<lb></lb>
this Informants Service about a Month. And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n244-4">Thomas Wright</rs>
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says that about 8 o'Clock on the following<lb></lb>
morning the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n244-5">William Rutley Pratt</rs>
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, brought the Mace<lb></lb>
now produced to this Informant's Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo251">Oxford Road</rs>
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, who<lb></lb>
requested to have it weighed and said he had Bought it<lb></lb>
that morning of a Man in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo252">Dean Street</rs>
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. And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n244-6">Ann Goodjohn</rs>
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says that the said William Rutley Pratt has<lb></lb>
lodged in her Hence about a fortnight That on Tuesday night<lb></lb>
the 18th. Instant the said Pratt was absent from his Lodging<lb></lb>
the whole Night that about a ¼ of an hour past 5 o'Clock<lb></lb>
the next Morning, the said Pratt came home, when this Informant<lb></lb>
asked him whether he had been in Bed that night, who replied</p>
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