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<p n="625"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx To Wit<lb></lb>
27th June 1793}</note>
<lb></lb>
Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n625-1">John Richardson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo194">Tottenham</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50885_occ108">Victualler</rs>
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Who on his Oath Charges <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n625-2">Catherine Brown</rs>
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<lb></lb>
brought before Me One of his Majestys Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace on Suspicion of having feloniously taken and<lb></lb>
carried away Three Pewter Alehouse Potts engraves<lb></lb>
with his Name and Sign (this Morning about seven<lb></lb>
O Clock) from the Ralls of the Front of the House of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n625-3">John Gilman</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50885_occ109">Esqr</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo195">Tottenham</rs>
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aforesaid being placed<lb></lb>
these purposely by the sd Gilmars Servants in<lb></lb>
Order for the sd Richardsons to Collect together<lb></lb>
it being customary so to do every Morning.</p>
<p n="626">The sd Brown after having so taken away the<lb></lb>
said Potts was apprehended at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo196">Clapton</rs>
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in the sd<lb></lb>
County in Company with a Woman named <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n626-1">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Stanley</rs>
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supposd to be an Accomplice with the sd<lb></lb>
Brown but who escaped; the sd Potts being produced<lb></lb>
were sworn by this Informant to be his Property.</p>
<p n="627">Evidence</p>
<p n="628"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n628-1">Joseph Hicks</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo197">Clapton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50885_occ110">Victualler</rs>
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on his Oath sayeth that<lb></lb>
the above mentioned <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n628-2">Elizabeth Stanley</rs>
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so named by<lb></lb>
the sd Brown Came to his Door and informed him<lb></lb>
that the sd Brown had some Pewter Potts Concealed<lb></lb>
about her and he suspecting that the sd Potts might<lb></lb>
be his Property having lost a great many, and he<lb></lb>
seeing the sd Richardsons Name upon One of the sd<lb></lb>
Potts ordered her unto Custody of ye Constable and on further<lb></lb>
search Two more Potts were found in her Possession<lb></lb>
on which she was brought as abovementioned to<lb></lb>
be further examined and dealt with according<lb></lb>
to Law</p>
<p n="629">Turnover</p>
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