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to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n552-1">Rebecca Smith</rs>
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of Mile<lb></lb>
End in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo423">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n552-2">Samuel Argo</rs>
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of the same Place Labourer<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n552-3">Thomas Hogarth</rs>
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of Swan Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo424">Petticoat<lb></lb>
Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo425">White Chapel</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ129">Labr</rs>
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. taken this 11th<lb></lb>
day of February 1783</p>
<p n="553">Who being upon Oath say and First the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n553-1">Rebecca<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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for herself on her Oath saith that she is the Daughter<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n553-2">Samuel Wood</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo426">Mile End</rs>
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and lives with him there<lb></lb>
That on Tuesday the Sixth day of February Instant<lb></lb>
between the Hours of Six and Nine in the Evening of<lb></lb>
the same Day a Pain of Glass was taken out of the<lb></lb>
Window of the Dwelling House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n553-3">Samuel Wood</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo427">Mile End</rs>
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aforesaid and that three Glass Tumblers<lb></lb>
a Small Glass Bottle a Quantity of Blue and Peas taken<lb></lb>
out of the Window of the said House and that the<lb></lb>
Glass Tumbler and Bottle now produced are<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the<lb></lb>
property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n553-4">Samuel Wood</rs>
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and Stolen at the<lb></lb>
time aforesaid.</p>
<p n="554">This Informant Samuel Argo for himself on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That he Lodger at the House of the said<del> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n554-1">Robert Smith</rs>
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</del>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n554-2">Samuel Wood</rs>
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that on Thursday Evening the Sixth<lb></lb>
day of February Inst. aforesaid being there with the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n554-3">Rebecca Smith</rs>
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about Eight o' Clock in the<lb></lb>
Evening he heard a rustling under the Window of<lb></lb>
the said House that he went to the Door and<lb></lb>
there saw the Boy now present who says his Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n554-4">Thomas<lb></lb>
Wilson</rs>
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and another Boy<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
near to the WIndow saith that<lb></lb>
he went into the House again and soon after it was Discovered<lb></lb>
the Window had been broke open and several things taken<lb></lb>
away That he then pursued and took the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n554-5">Thomas<lb></lb>
Wilson</rs>
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and found in his Pocket a Quantity of Peas That<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
near to the Place where he took him he picked<lb></lb>
up a Glass Tumbler a small Glass Bottle and a Quantity<lb></lb>
of Blue which he now produces.</p>
<p n="555">and This Informant Thomas Hogarth for himself on his<lb></lb>
Oath saith that on the Evening of the said 6th day of<lb></lb>
February Instant he was in Company with the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n555-1">Thomas Wilson</rs>
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at Mile End together with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n555-2">James<lb></lb>
Birch</rs>
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That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n555-3">Thomas Wilson</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n555-4">James Birch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
did<del>with a knife</del>
take out a Pain of Glass from a WIndow<lb></lb>
in a House at Mile End afsd. and he believes they did<lb></lb>
take something out of the said Window but what he cannot<lb></lb>
tell and that he never was<del>never</del>
concerned in any other<lb></lb>
Robbery.</p>
<p n="556">Sworn the 11th day of Feby<lb></lb>
1783 before us</p>
<p n="557"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n557-1">John Staples</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n557-2">Saml Hawkins</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="558"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n558-1">Rebecca Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n558-2">Samuel Argo</rs>
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</p>
<p n="559">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n559-1">Thomas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Hogarth</rs>
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Mark</p>
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