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<p n="185"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo140">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n185-1">John Kitchener</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
Holsden Green <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ45">Farmer</rs>
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and Patrole of the Parish<del>and</del>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n185-2">Thomas Sexton</rs>
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of the same place <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ46">Labourer</rs>
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Taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date40">5th. day of January 1787</rs>
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<p n="186">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n186-1">John Kitchener</rs>
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saith that last Night between<lb></lb>
twelve and one o'Clock as he was going by the House of<lb></lb>
Robert Tables at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo141">Holsden</rs>
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aforesaid he heard a Noise<lb></lb>
That he stopped and listened and thought he heard<lb></lb>
something fall from the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Side of the House<lb></lb>
That he then called <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n186-2">Thomas Sexton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n186-3">James Adams</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now present That they went to the back of said House<lb></lb>
and on looking over the Pales, saw three Men<lb></lb>
walking backwards and forwards and soon afterwards<lb></lb>
heard a Noise like Chopping That soon afterward<lb></lb>
said three Men came out of the Garden two of them<lb></lb>
having Lead on their Shoulders and the other as<lb></lb>
Bag of Hay That they seized said two Men with the<lb></lb>
Lead who are the two Prisoners now present and<lb></lb>
the Man who had the Hayes caped That <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n186-4">James<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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now present attempted to strike this<lb></lb>
Informant with the Stick now Produced when<lb></lb>
he knocked him down with his Blunderbuss<lb></lb>
at which time<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n186-5">Joseph Busby</rs>
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<lb></lb>
otherwise Burbidge now present made his Escape and when<lb></lb>
he had got some distance this Informant fired at<lb></lb>
him and wounded him in the High That after<lb></lb>
securing said Smith they Pursued and apprehended<lb></lb>
said BusbyThat the Lead now produced is the<lb></lb>
same Lead so stolen by the said Smith and Busby<lb></lb>
and which had been stolen from the House of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n186-6">Robert Tubbs</rs>
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And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n186-7">Thomas Sexton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself saith that about one o'Clock this Morning<lb></lb>
said Kitchener called him and told him that<lb></lb>
there were some persons stealing the Lead from<lb></lb>
Mr. Tubbs House and requested him to go with him<lb></lb>
and apprehended them that he then called <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n186-8">James<lb></lb>
Adams</rs>
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