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<p n="1542"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo995">Middlesex</rs>
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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1542-1">David Morum</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1542-2">Joseph Smith</rs>
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taken and made on Oath before<lb></lb>
me one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace<lb></lb>
in and for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo996">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
29th. day of August 1781</p>
<p n="1543">This Informant David Morum saith that he is a<lb></lb>
Victualler and lives in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo997">Whitecross Street</rs>
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in the said County<lb></lb>
That on Monday Evening last about six or seven o'Clock<lb></lb>
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he went to the Apartment or Lodgings of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1543-1">Elizabeth Murray</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in Woods Court Norton Halgate in the said County he having<lb></lb>
been invited by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1543-2">Elizabeth Murray</rs>
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the day before<lb></lb>
to come to see her there. That he staid there about two<lb></lb>
Hours and on going away missed his Watch which he<lb></lb>
had before put into his Breaches Pocket and which had<lb></lb>
been Stole thereout While he was in the Room With the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1543-3">Elizabeth Murray</rs>
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, And further saith that he verily<lb></lb>
beleves the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1543-4">Elizabeth Murray</rs>
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stole the same not other<lb></lb>
person being<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in the Room with him And this Informant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1543-5">Joseph Smith</rs>
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Saith that she is a Pawn broker and lives<lb></lb>
in EastSmithfield in the said County and that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1543-6">Elizabeth Murray</rs>
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on the twenty eighth day of August instant<lb></lb>
brought to this Informants House a Silver Watch which she<lb></lb>
paconed with this Informant for half a Guinea And this<lb></lb>
Informant David Mourn further saith that the said<lb></lb>
Watch so pawned with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1543-7">Joseph smith</rs>
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by the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1543-8">Elizabeth Murray</rs>
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, is the same which was stolen from<lb></lb>
this Informant as aforesaid.</p>
<p n="1544"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1544-1">David Morum</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1544-2">Joseph Smith</rs>
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<p n="1545">Taken and sworn the day<lb></lb>
and Year aforesaid before<lb></lb>
me}</p>
<p n="1546">D Wilmot</p>
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