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<p n="57"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo26">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n57-1">Wharton Wilson</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n57-2">Edward Grey</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45017_date10">9th. day of January 1771</rs>
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<p n="58">Who being upon Oath say that on Wednesday Night last<lb></lb>
nine Ferkins of Butter were stolen out of a Lighter lying<lb></lb>
alongside his Ship in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo27">River Thoames</rs>
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and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n58-1">Edward<lb></lb>
Grey</rs>
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for himself says that he is <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45017_occ6">Apprentice</rs>
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to the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n58-4">Wharton Wilson</rs>
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that on Wednesday night aforesaid<lb></lb>
he was watching on board the said Ship that hearing a<lb></lb>
Noise he went upon Deck and saw three Men stealing<lb></lb>
the said nine firkins of Butter out of the said Lighter<lb></lb>
that a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n58-3">James<lb></lb>
Glover</rs>
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is one of the said three persons who was<lb></lb>
stealing the said firkins of Butter he being on the<lb></lb>
Lighter's Gunnel and handing them to another<lb></lb>
Man who was in a Sculler</p>
<p n="59">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45017_date11">Janry. 9. 177</rs>
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<p n="60">Walding</p>
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<p n="62"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n62-1">Edward Grey</rs>
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