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Middlesex to wit


The Information of Joseph Palmer< no role > and Robert Browne< no role >
Esqr . taken before me this 29th. day of July 1774

Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said Palmer for himself
says that on Tuesday night last after 11 o Clock his house situated
in Compton Street in the Parish of Saint him Westmr. was broke open
and a Quantiity of Silver plate feloniously taken and carried away
that a Pair of Salts and a pepper Box now produced was feloniously
taken out of his house that night And the said Robert Brown< no role >
for himself says that he found the aforesaid Salts & pepper
Box
< no role > together with a Chizzel Hanger Flint Steel & Matches
on a Person now present who calls himself William Griffiths< no role >
between one and two o Clock on the Wednesday morning in
Saint Margarets Westminster and further says he believes said
Griffiths stole said Plate out of said Palmers house as aforesaid

Sworn before me
July 29. 1774}
[..]

Joseph Palmer< no role >
Browne




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