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<p n="395"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo405">London</rs>
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(to wit)</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n395-1">John Webb</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n395-2">James Townsend</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ163">Esquire</rs>
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one of the Aldermen of the<lb></lb>
said City this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15098_date70">30thday of April1787</rs>
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<p n="396">Who being upon his Oath saith that he hath been employed as a Porter by<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n396-1">Joseph Lomas</rs>
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for some time before Christmas last until the time of the<lb></lb>
said Lomas's being apprehendedThat about three Weeks before Christmas<lb></lb>
he went with sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n396-2">Joseph Lomas</rs>
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to Carter Lane near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo406">Saint Pauls Church Yard</rs>
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That sd Lomas<lb></lb>
went into the Warehouse of Messrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n396-4">Samuel Hollings</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n396-5">William Sutton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at the Back Poor in Carter Lane near<del>in</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo407">Saint Pauls Church Yard</rs>
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aforesaid having first told this Informant<lb></lb>
to wait in the Street until he sd. Lomas gave this Informant a Sign to<lb></lb>
come to the back Door of sd. WarehouseThat sd Lomas having been<lb></lb>
sometime in the said Warehouse came to the Door and beckoned to this<lb></lb>
Informant who thereupon went to sd. Warehouse when sd Lomas and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n396-6">Thomas Beazar</rs>
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porter to said Messrs. Hollings & Sutton put a Basket<lb></lb>
containing Earthen Ware on Informants Head and sd Lomas ordered<lb></lb>
Informant to Carry same to his sd Lomas's House.That this Informant<lb></lb>
hath been several times to a public house Carter Lane near the Warehouse of sd. Messrs<lb></lb>
Hollings and Sutton early in the morning together with said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n396-8">Joseph Lomas</rs>
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<lb></lb>
where they waited until said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n396-9">Thomas Beazar</rs>
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came to themThat sd<lb></lb>
Beazar and Lomas usually drank together and said Beazar told said<lb></lb>
Lomas to wait until the warehouse was openThat sd. Beazar came<lb></lb>
to inform sd Lomas when the warehouse was open and then sd Lomas<lb></lb>
and Beazar went away together from sd public houseThat in a short<lb></lb>
time sd Lomas returned to sd public house with a Basket of Earthen<lb></lb>
Ware and ordered Informant to Carry same homeThat this Informant<lb></lb>
hath also by the direction of sd Lomas waited at the Cock Alehouse in Bow<lb></lb>
Lane until the sd Lomas brought a Basket of Earthen Ware and<lb></lb>
directed Informant to carry same homeThat the said Lomas<lb></lb>
generally unpacked said Baskets himselfThat this Informant brought<lb></lb>
a Basket containing Plates from sd. Warehouse to Lomas's have and<lb></lb>
this Informant counted the number of such Plates and found there was<lb></lb>
Eleven Dozen.</p>
<p n="397">Taken and Sworn at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo408">Guild Hall</rs>
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London this<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15098_date71"> 30th day of April 1787</rs>
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before me}<lb></lb>
S: Townsend</p>
<p n="398">The mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n398-1">John Webb</rs>
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