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<p n="1251"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1251-1">John Summersby</rs>
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taken on<lb></lb>
Oath before in<del>two</del>
of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ149">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
and for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45018_date84">30s. day of April 1772</rs>
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<p n="1252">Who saith that he is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ150">Watchman</rs>
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belonging to and employed by the<lb></lb>
Parish or Justices of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo553">Parish of St Mary</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo554">White Chapel</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said County and that A this morning about a Quarter an hour after<lb></lb>
Twelve o' Clock<del>he saw a Man in</del>
being on his duty he saw a<lb></lb>
man (who is now present and saith his name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1252-1">Joseph Lee</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo555">High Street</rs>
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in the said Parish with a Deal Board on<lb></lb>
his Backsaith that he made up to the said Man and <lb></lb>
asked him how he came by the Deal saith that he<lb></lb>
replied he Bought<del>that</del>
itsaith that being late he suspected<lb></lb>
that<del>the</del>
it was Stoln and therefore took hold of the said Man<lb></lb>
upon which the said man endeavored to get from him and<lb></lb>
Strugled with him muchbut that he held the said<lb></lb>
Man and conveyed him to the Watch House</p>
<p n="1253"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1253-1">John Summerset</rs>
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<p n="1254">Taken and Sworn the<lb></lb>
day and Year above<lb></lb>
Written before us<del>me</del>
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<p n="1255"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1255-1">Wm Gascoigne</rs>
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<p n="1256">D Wilmot</p>
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