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<p n="473"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo350">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n473-1">James Murphy</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ114">servant</rs>
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to Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n473-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Donne</rs>
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of Masons Court in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo351">Parish of Saint Mary White<lb></lb>
Chapel</rs>
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in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ115">Silk Throwster</rs>
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A<obscured></obscured>
rabella<lb></lb>
the Wife of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n473-4">Thomas Donne</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n473-5">Charles Earl</rs>
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one<lb></lb>
of the Beadles of the said Parish taken on Oath<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n473-6">John Staples</rs>
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Esqr one of His Majestys<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace for the said County this 27th<lb></lb>
day of February 1782</p>
<p n="474">First this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n474-1">James Murphy</rs>
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on his Oath saith that he<lb></lb>
Turns one of the Silk Threwing Mills belonging to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n474-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Donne</rs>
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that about Eight o'Clock this Morning when at his Duty he<lb></lb>
saw Hannah Eaten the Person now Present who is the Thread<lb></lb>
maker belonging to his said Mill take one Bobbin and a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Quantity of Silk and put it in her Pocket<del>up</del>
and having Suspicion<lb></lb>
of her having several times Robbed the Mill before he made<lb></lb>
a Signal to one of his fellow servants to call his Mistress<lb></lb>
who came into the Shop and on being informed what had happened<lb></lb>
she sent for an Officer and had the said Hannah Eaton searches<lb></lb>
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<p n="475">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n475-1">Arrabella Donne</rs>
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on her Oath saith that<lb></lb>
being sent for and informed that the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n475-2">Hannah<lb></lb>
Eaton</rs>
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was suspected of having Stolen a Quantity of<lb></lb>
Silk and Particularly<del>that</del>
this Morning by the said<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
es Murphy who had given her to understand<del>that</del>
<lb></lb>
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the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n475-4">Hannah Eaton</rs>
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had then taken a Bobbin<lb></lb>
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put it in her Pocket she sent for an Officer and had<lb></lb>
the said Hannah Searched in her Presence<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
(who then<lb></lb>
Denied having any Silk about her) and in her Pocket were<lb></lb>
found about Six Ounces of Bengal Silk wound on two<lb></lb>
Bobbins which said Silk and Bobbins are the Property<lb></lb>
of her Husband the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n475-5">Thomas Donne</rs>
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and the same that<lb></lb>
are now produced which the Prisoner then Confessed to<lb></lb>
have Stolen & Crased Mercy</p>
<p n="476">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n476-1">Charles Earle</rs>
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on his Oath saith that<lb></lb>
he was sent for by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n476-2">Arabella Donne</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
that he took out of the Pocket of the Prisoner the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n476-3">Hannah Eaton</rs>
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two Bobbins and a Quantity of<lb></lb>
Silk wound thereon and that the<del>said</del>
Bobbins and<lb></lb>
Silk now by him produced are the same he so Pound in<lb></lb>
the Pocket of the Prisoner.</p>
<p n="477">Taken and Sworn the day & year<lb></lb>
first above written before me}</p>
<p n="478"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n478-1">John Staples</rs>
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<p n="479">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n479-1">James<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Murphy</rs>
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<p n="480"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n480-1">Arabella Donne</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n480-2">Chas Earle</rs>
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.</p>
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