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<p n="509"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo567">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n509-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Mc. Lern</rs>
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- taken upon Oath before<lb></lb>
Me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n509-48">William Blackborow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ193">Esqr</rs>
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. One of<lb></lb>
His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ194">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
and for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date100">7th. day of<lb></lb>
February 1786</rs>
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<p n="510">This Informant upon his Oath saith that he<lb></lb>
is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ195">Watchman</rs>
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for that part of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo568">Holborn Hill</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo569">Union Court</rs>
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<lb></lb>
which is in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo570">Saint Andrew Holborn</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo571">City of<lb></lb>
London</rs>
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that at a little after four of the Clock<del>of</del>
in the Morning<lb></lb>
of Sunday the Fifth day of February instant he was called<lb></lb>
by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n510-74">Richard Wear</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ196">Watchman</rs>
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to his Assistance at the House<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n510-1">Isabella Chapman</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo572">Union Court</rs>
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aforesaid the said Richard<lb></lb>
Wear having found it to have been broke open this Informt.<lb></lb>
stopt at the door of the House in order to prevent any person from<lb></lb>
coming out whilst the said Richard Wear went in to search<lb></lb>
during such time Mr. Chapman called out at her Window<lb></lb>
and bid them mind the next House for that they meaning<lb></lb>
the person or persons who had broke her House open were got there<lb></lb>
this Informant than called the other Watchman Richd. Wear and<lb></lb>
they in Company with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n510-25">Edwd. Mason</rs>
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a Lodger at Mrs. Chapmans<lb></lb>
went to the next House where the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n510-2">Henry Thompson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was taken this Informant was then looking about the Yard and<lb></lb>
one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n510-3">Mary Ludlow</rs>
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a lodger in the House desired this Informt.<lb></lb>
to look in the Necessary which he did and there found the<lb></lb>
other Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n510-4">Thomas Harris</rs>
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who pretended to be a Sleep<lb></lb>
This Informant then brought him out and he was taken to<lb></lb>
the Watch House with the other Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n510-5">Henry Thompson</rs>
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<p n="511">Taken and Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
Day and Year first above Written-}</p>
<p n="512">W Blackborow</p>
<p n="513"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n513-1">Thos Mc Lern</rs>
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