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The Information of
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Benjamin Vialls
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Oxford Market Place
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in the
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Parish of St Mary le bone
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in the said County, Master
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Butcher
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Margaret Vialls
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, (his
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Benjamin Lewis
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at No: 104 in
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Titchfield
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in the said Parish and dunty,
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Butcher
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James Ayers
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,a
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Coach
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Wheeler
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, at No. 9 in Fisher Street near
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Robert
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Wetherick
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(a
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Servant
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to Mr
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James Baker
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No. 48 in
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Newman Street
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, in the
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, taken upon Oath this
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3d day of Decemr. 1775
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before us, Two of his Majesty's
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Justices of the peace
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for ye said County,
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and Liberty
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Who being Severally upon their respective Oaths; And first, This
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Informant
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Benjamin Vialls
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, upon his said oath declareth and Saith,
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that Last Night, (being Saturday the Second of December instant
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1775, he was at his shop in
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Oxford Market
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where about Eleven
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o'Clock at Night, he was Alanned by the other Informant
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Margaret Vialls (his Wife) coming to him and telling him
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That his House had been broke open, and Robbed, upon
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which he went directly home, And upon his Examining
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he found that the House had been broke open, and Entered
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at the Back Parlour Window by the breaking of a Pane
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of Glass and Unscrewing of a Screw, by which the Sash
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was fastened down, Which Sash Window he found open
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and the broker Glass lying Without and some within
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the said Room, And upon Examining further, this Informant
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found, That a Matrogony Bureau which Stood in his fore
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Parlour, had been broke open, And many of his Papers
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which were in the said Bureau were Scattered about
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some upon the Floor, & Some about the Bureau, And
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that a Bank Note of the Value of Thirty Pounds, together
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with some Money both Gold and Silver and likewise
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a Chrystal Stone Sleeve Studd Set in Silver, had been
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taken and Carried Away. And this Informant further saith,
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That he doth Verily believe The Bank note of Thirty
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Pounds now produced, to the Bank Note which was
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taken and Carried away but of his Bureau as aforesaid. And
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does likewife believe That the Two Guineas in Cold, and
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Thirty Six Shillings and Six pence in Silver Also produced,
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was taken and Carried Away out of this Bureau as aforesaid
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And this Informant is positive and certain that the Chrystal
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Stone Sleeve Studd set in Silver, Now produced is his property,
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And was taken and Carried away out of his said Bureau, at
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