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<p n="16"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50574_geo9">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n16-1">Ann</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50574_occ3">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n16-2">John<lb></lb>
Manning</rs>
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of the Red Lion <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50574_geo10">Islington Road</rs>
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taken before me this 7th. day of August 1767</p>
<p n="17">Who being on Oath says that on Wednesday last upwards of<lb></lb>
twenty five pounds were stolen out of her House <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50574_geo11">near Islington</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that about 7 o'clock in the Evening she went into her<lb></lb>
Bed Chamber to look after a pair of Silver Tea Tongs<lb></lb>
saya that she found them in the Drawer & that at that<lb></lb>
Time the aforesaid Money was there says as she returned<lb></lb>
down Stairs she met<del>the</del>
two persons now present who call<lb></lb>
themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n17-1">Richard Thomas</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n17-2">William Edwards</rs>
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coming<lb></lb>
up stairs, says that they desired her to being them six<lb></lb>
pennyworth of Brandy and Water, says that she carried it<lb></lb>
up to them into a Room up one pair of Stairs which has<lb></lb>
a Bow Window in it, says that were then in the said<lb></lb>
Room Mr. Brooke and Mr. Marsh two Printers, says that there<lb></lb>
is a Door in the said Room which opens into this Informants<lb></lb>
Bed Chamber from whence the Money was taken, says that<lb></lb>
the said Brooke & the said Marsh went away about half an<lb></lb>
hour before the said Edwards and Thomas, says that said<lb></lb>
Edwards and said Thomas went from her house about half an<lb></lb>
hour after eight o'Clock, says that when the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n17-3">Edwards &<lb></lb>
Thomas</rs>
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went away Thomas paid the Reckoning, say's that<lb></lb>
as the said Thomas seemed greatly confused she<del>sum</del>
sent<lb></lb>
her Servant to see if any thing was taken away for as she<lb></lb>
thought a Silver Spoon had been left in the Bason but she<lb></lb>
afterwards found it in her Pocket, says that no Company<lb></lb>
went into till she Room after the said Edwards and Thomas<lb></lb>
were gone 'till she missed her said Money, says that she has<lb></lb>
Cause to suspect<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and does suspect and verily believe that the<lb></lb>
said Edwards and Thomas were the Persons<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
who<lb></lb>
stole the said Money</p>
<p n="18"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n18-1">Ann Manning</rs>
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<p n="19">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
August 7th. 1767}</p>
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