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<p n="872"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx <lb></lb>
to wit}</note>
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The Information of Prisila Humes and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50396_n872-1">Judith Osbourn</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50396_geo604">St. Botolph Aldgate</rs>
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in the sd. County taken<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50396_date152">29 Day of June</rs>
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1749 before the One of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50396_occ261">Justices of the peace</rs>
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of the sd. County</p>
<p n="873">These Informants upon there Oaths saith (that is to say) the sd.<lb></lb>
Prisila Humes saith one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50396_n873-1">David Finn</rs>
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who is now Committed<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
to his Majestys Goal of new Gate on Oath on Suspicion of Feloniously<lb></lb>
Steling out of the House of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50396_n873-2">Henry Helsey</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50396_geo605">Saint Katherine Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Twenty Guineas in Gold his property that the sd. David Finn was on<lb></lb>
or about the 2o. Inst. Deinting at her House were <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50396_geo606">Little Tower Hill</rs>
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and the next morning one Wm. Chard came to her House and told her<lb></lb>
that his Brother in Law David Finn was taken Prisoner And She<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
him for what he told her Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50396_n873-3">Henry Belsey</rs>
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was Kobed the last night<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
by a Purss of Guineas but he Belived Mr. Belseys Wife<lb></lb>
was the only Theif foe the Gold was wropt up in or between two Blankets<lb></lb>
there was a bagg of Silver and a Bunch of Rings upon the top of the Gold<lb></lb>
which was Stolen and Certainly if my Brother in Law or I had Selen the<lb></lb>
same wee should have taken the Bagg of Silver and the Rings<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
to gether with the Gold and further said not </p>
<p n="874">The sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50396_n874-1">Judith Osbourn</rs>
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saith upon her Oath that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50396_n874-2">Wm. Chard</rs>
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told her on<lb></lb>
or about the 28th. Inst. (that at the time when Mr. Belsey was the sd. there was<lb></lb>
as much Silver as a Quart pet would held and that there was also<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
a Silver Tant<obscured></obscured>
d a silver<obscured></obscured>
and several other things is also that was<lb></lb>
oppen and this Informant saith she hath been to the Goal to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50396_n874-3">David Finn</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and he told her not with standing he was in Custody his Brother in Law Wm.<lb></lb>
Chard was as deep in the Midd as he is in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50396_geo607">Mire</rs>
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and further saith not</p>
<p n="875">Sworn the Day and Your first above<lb></lb>
Written before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50396_n875-1">John Lawton</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="876">her<lb></lb>
Prisila<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Humes<lb></lb>
Mark<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50396_n876-1">Judith<obscured></obscured>
Osbourn</rs>
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her Mark</p>
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