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Middlesex
to wit.}


The Information of Robert Knight< no role > Senior and
Edmund Wade< no role > taken on Oath the 12th day, of
November 1784 before me one of his Majestys
Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex .

This Informant Robert Knight< no role > Saith That he is by
Trade a Pewterer and works for Messrs. Townsend and
Compton Pewterers in Fenchurchstreet London And that on
Saturday Evening the Sixth day of November Instant
there was Feloniously stolen one of the work shop of the [..]
said Messrs. Townsend and Compton, Two Ingots of Pewter
and Two Dozen and ten Pewter Plates, the property of
the said Messrs. Townsend and Compton, And further [..]
Saith That [..] one Dozen and
ten Pewter Plates now Produced by Edmund Wade< no role >
Headborough is the property of the said Messrs. Townsend
and Compton and is part of the property so Stolen from
them as aforesaid

And this Informant Edmund Wade< no role > Saith That he is
a Peace Officer And that on Saturday Evening between
seven and Eight O'Clock as he was walking along
Bell Lane in the Parish of [..] Christ Church in
the County of Middlesex , he saw Mary Brigham< no role >
the Prisoner now under Examination sitting on
some steps of a Door in the said Lane, And he asked
her what she had in her lap, to which she made
Answer she had a Child there, but he not being
Satisfied with that Answer, he searched her and
found in her lap One Ingol of< no role > Pewter and Twenty
two Pewter Plates which is now produced by him

Sworn the 12th day
of November 1784.
before me}

D Wilmot< no role >

Robert Knight< no role >
Ed [..] Wade< no role >




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