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The Informations of William
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Batten Ostler at the Saracens Head
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Thomas Berry
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1st. day of December 1787
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William Batton
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between five and six Clock in the Evening of Tuesday
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the thirtieth day of October last he looked up in a
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Box in a Room at the Saracens Head Inn aforesaid
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two Coats one Waistcoat and one Hat and three Cravats
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That about half an Hour past one o'Clock on the
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next Morning he went to bed That upon Examining
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his said Box he found it had been broke open
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and the said Things taken away And this
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informant further says that the Hat and Steel
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now produced he found in the said Room which
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he is confident were not there at the time he
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locked his said Box the preceeding Evening And
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That Informant took up the
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