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<p n="485"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo446">London</rs>
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The Information of Adam<lb></lb>
Wragg taken before Me <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n485-2">Thomas Wright</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo447">City of London</rs>
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and one of this Majesty<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ210">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said City this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15097_date74">Twenty fourth<lb></lb>
Day of March 1786</rs>
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<p n="486">Saith that the Acquaintance of him this Informant<lb></lb>
with the Two Jews <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n486-1">Barnard Hyams</rs>
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and Samuel Benjamin<lb></lb>
commenced about Eight Months ago at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo448">Holborn Hill</rs>
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when<lb></lb>
one of them asked Informant if he would buy a Hat, and<lb></lb>
that Informant replied he did not want one, That the said<lb></lb>
Hyams and Benjamin then sayd if he this Informant liked<lb></lb>
either of their Hate they would exchange with him this In-<lb></lb>
-formant for any kind of Goods. That Informant met the<lb></lb>
said Hyams and Benjamin again, and agreed to carry them<lb></lb>
two Silk Handkerchiefs, which Informant valued about Nine<lb></lb>
Shillings, and received for the said two Handkerchiefs one Hat of the<lb></lb>
said Hyams and Benjamin. That they the said Hyams and<lb></lb>
Benjamin sayd they were Brothers and<del>the</del>
one of them sayd<lb></lb>
to Informant I suppose you live at a Shop or Warehouse<lb></lb>
and wished to know if Informant could get any more Goods<lb></lb>
and that He would buy them of this Informant and give<lb></lb>
for them a good Price. That about five Days after Infor-<lb></lb>
mant took to the said Hyams and Benjamin two other Hand-<lb></lb>
-kerchiefs and received for the same five Shillings, and that the<lb></lb>
said Hyams and Benjamin asked Informant to bring Some<lb></lb>
-thing of greater Value, and sayd to Informant that Several<lb></lb>
Young Men from Shops and Warehouses did So, and that<lb></lb>
they the said Hyams and Benjamin always sent the same<lb></lb>
abroad. That the said Hyams and Benjamin asked this Infor-<lb></lb>
-mant what Goods Informant's Master dealt in, but she said</p>
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