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<p n="23"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Glamorganshire (to wit)</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n23-23">John<lb></lb>
Child</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo23">Neath</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo24">Glamorgan </rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ12">Ironmonger</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n23-24">Martha<lb></lb>
Gibbon</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ13">Spinster</rs>
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his late Servant<lb></lb>
Taken upon Oath before me Sir<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n23-2">Herbert Mackworth</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ14">Baronet</rs>
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One<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ15">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15096_date5">fourteenth day of December One<lb></lb>
thousand seven hundred and eighty<lb></lb>
four</rs>
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<p n="24">First the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n24-1">John Child</rs>
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Saith That on Monday<lb></lb>
the eighth day of March last he inclosed in a Letter<lb></lb>
directed to Messrs. Holmer and Co: at their Steel Yard in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo25">Thames Street</rs>
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London One half Share of a Lottery Ticket<lb></lb>
in the Lottery of the Year 1783 Numbered 3m 989 and<lb></lb>
One Quarter Share of a Lottery Ticket in the Lottery of the<lb></lb>
same Year 1783 Numbered 28m 152 that he sealed<lb></lb>
the Letters and about the Hour of Eleven o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
Morning of the same Eighth day of March last and then<lb></lb>
delivered the same into the Hands of the said Martha<lb></lb>
Gibbon And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n24-3">Martha Gibbon</rs>
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Saith that<lb></lb>
immediately on Receipt of the same she delivered the said<lb></lb>
Letter whole and unaltered and Under Seal as she<lb></lb>
received the same from the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n24-4">John Child</rs>
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into the<lb></lb>
Hands of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n24-5">Elizabeth Berry</rs>
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now <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n24-6">Elizabeth Thomas</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo26">the Post Office</rs>
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in Neath<lb></lb>
aforesaid And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n24-7">John Child</rs>
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further Saith he<lb></lb>
believes that the said Letters was duly forwarded from<lb></lb>
the said Post Office in Neath And that the same was<lb></lb>
never delivered to Messrs. Holmer and Co to whom<lb></lb>
directed but was feloniously Stolen by some<lb></lb>
Person</p>
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