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<p n="644"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx<lb></lb>
and <lb></lb>
Westmr. }<lb></lb>
to wit</note>
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<p n="645">The Information of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n645-1">Jacob<lb></lb>
Boursot</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50397_geo360">New Street Covent Garden</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50397_occ203">Goldsmith</rs>
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taken before me this<lb></lb>
10th. augt. 1749.</p>
<p n="646">Who being upon Oath says that a person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n646-1">James Jewell</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50397_n646-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
came into his Shop this<lb></lb>
Morning and Sold him a Gold Ring for which this Informt.<lb></lb>
gave him Twelve Shillings and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
three pence, Says<lb></lb>
that thereupon the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n646-2">James Jewell</rs>
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told this Informt.<lb></lb>
that we have deall together we will deal<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
again for<lb></lb>
a Small Ring to make a present to Girl on which this<lb></lb>
Informt. Shewed him a Small Gold Ring, but it was too<lb></lb>
Slight and too Small upon which he Reached over the<lb></lb>
Counter and putt his hand into the Drawer and took up<lb></lb>
another, and finding that too Small laid it Down again,<lb></lb>
and took up another at the Same time, and said that<lb></lb>
would not do, at which time he pretended to lay it down<lb></lb>
but by Slight of hand Dropt a Brass Ring in it's Room<lb></lb>
Upon which<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
this Informt. perceiving it, laid his finger<lb></lb>
upon it telling him it was not the Ring he took up,<lb></lb>
And this Informt. Further says that he is possitive sure<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n646-3">James Jewell</rs>
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feloniously took up a Gold<lb></lb>
Ring out of his Drawer and Dropt the Brass one in its<lb></lb>
Stead for all the Rings that was in this Informt. Drawer<lb></lb>
were Gold.</p>
<p n="647">Sworn before me <lb></lb>
this 10th. augt. 1749 }</p>
<p n="648">H Feilding</p>
<p n="649"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n649-1">Jacob Boursot</rs>
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