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