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<p n="148"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50390_geo85">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n148-1">Robert Fry</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50390_geo86">Liberty of the Rolls</rs>
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in the said County taken<lb></lb>
on Oath before me one of his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50390_occ38">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County.</p>
<p n="149">This Informant maketh Oath and saith that this Day two<lb></lb>
Persons came to the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n149-1">Sidney Stafford Symth</rs>
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the Esqr. in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50390_geo87">Liberty of the Rolls</rs>
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aforesaid in the County aforesaid and then<lb></lb>
and there Asked Alms of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n149-2">Sidney Stafford Smythe</rs>
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<lb></lb>
under a pretence of one of them who calls himself<obscured></obscured>
Smiths having had a great loss by the Death of Cattle and<lb></lb>
then and there Shewing severall Books & Papers with Peoples<lb></lb>
names and Sums of Money against them which they pretended<lb></lb>
they had Collected<del>for themselves</del>
for ye sd. Smith and others who were Suffered<lb></lb>
by the Loss of Cattle which Books they wou'd not produce before the Justice and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n149-3">Sidney Stafford</rs>
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Smythe upon<lb></lb>
asking them Questions found they varied much from what they<lb></lb>
had said to him at first and had them apprehended and brought<lb></lb>
before<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n149-4">Luke Robinson</rs>
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Esqr. as Ro<obscured></obscured>
gnes and Cheats, one of the said persons<lb></lb>
said he was born at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50390_geo88">East Grinstead</rs>
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in Sussex<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<del>Perr<obscured></obscured>
ness was in Dicoing and Selling of Cattle,</del>
at first he<lb></lb>
said his name was Batchelo<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
r and a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50390_occ39">Salesman</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50390_geo89">Islington</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and afterwards he said his name wasBroom and lived<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50390_geo90">Bloomsbury</rs>
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and his Business was in Driving & Selling of<lb></lb>
Cattle at Smith field The other Person at first went by the name of<lb></lb>
and afterwards said his names was <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n149-5">Robert Smith</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50390_occ40">Farmer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50390_geo91">Oxfordshire</rs>
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and in Driving and Selling of Cattle in Smith field<lb></lb>
But the said person who now goes by the name of Roberts Smith<lb></lb>
at first went by some other name but by what name this<lb></lb>
Informant does not Remember</p>
<p n="150">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
12th. Day of July 1748]<lb></lb>
L Robinson</p>
<p n="151"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n151-1">Robt. Fry</rs>
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