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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n494-1">Mary Bromley</rs>
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Servant to Mrs. Ann<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Dewick the<lb></lb>
Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n494-2">Edward<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Dewick</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo341">Old Gravel Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo342">St George Middlesex</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date102">6th. day of Feby 1787</rs>
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Who being on Oath says the sixteen pair of Mens Stocking<lb></lb>
produced are the property of her said Master and were safe in the Window of his shop situate as<lb></lb>
aforesaid this afternoon. That between the hours of Four and Five The prisoners who<lb></lb>
says his name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n494-3">James Roberts</rs>
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came into the said Shop and asked her where No.<lb></lb>
18 was that she answered that Shop was No. 77 and that he then went away and she<lb></lb>
went into the parlour which adjoins the shop which has a Window in the Door<lb></lb>
which commands a sight of the ShopSays in a few Minutes after the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n494-4">James Roberts</rs>
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came again into the Shop and took the sixteen pair<lb></lb>
of Stockings produced into his hands and run out with the same That<lb></lb>
she run after him and cryed Stop thief that he run up the first Turning<lb></lb>
on the left hand which is not a Thorough fare that she pursued him<lb></lb>
and found him in Custody of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n494-5">John Reynolds</rs>
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in the said Turning</p>
<p n="495"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n495-1">Mary Bramley</rs>
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<p n="496"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n496-1">John Reynold</rs>
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says he is Apprentice unto <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n496-2">William Baily</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo343">Old Gravel Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo344">St. George Middlesex</rs>
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Mathematical Instrument maker and on Oath That This afternoon between the hours of<lb></lb>
Four and five as he was at Work backward he heard the Cry of Stop thief says he<lb></lb>
looked out of a Window and saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n496-3">James Roberts</rs>
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burning round by his said<lb></lb>
masters shop with all the said Stockings produced except one pair which had falled<lb></lb>
The he run and seized him when he let all the Remainder fall on the Ground<lb></lb>
and saw them picked up that he secured the Prisoner and brought<del>them</del>
him to the<lb></lb>
House<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
where The first Witness lives and that a Bakers Boy who picked up the<lb></lb>
said Stockings all but One pair and brought them along with this Informant to where<lb></lb>
they had been taken fromThat he saw them all sorted as they now appear<lb></lb>
and put into the Coloured Silk Handkerchief now produced</p>
<p n="497">Taken and Sworn<lb></lb>
The day and Year abovementioned<lb></lb>
Before us</p>
<p n="498"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n498-1">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n498-2">Peter Greene</rs>
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<p n="499"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n499-1">John Reynolds</rs>
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<p n="500"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n500-1">Ann Dewick</rs>
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on her Oath says The sixteen pair of Cotton Stockings of Different Colours<lb></lb>
produced Two pair of which she knows to be of her Husband making and his property<lb></lb>
And That she verily believes the remaining Fourteen pair are her Husband<lb></lb>
property likewise and are of the Value of Three pound</p>
<p n="501">Taken and Sworn<lb></lb>
The <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date103">ninth day of Feby 1787</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Before me</p>
<p n="502"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n502-1">John Staples</rs>
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<p n="503"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n503-1">Ann Dewick</rs>
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<p n="504">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n504-1">James Roberts</rs>
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being asked by me what he has to<lb></lb>
say for himself Answered nothing and that he was in Liquor</p>
<p n="505"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n505-1">James Robert</rs>
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<p n="506">The Declaration and signing thereof before me<lb></lb>
The <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date104">9th: of Feby: 1787</rs>
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<p n="507"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n507-1">John Staples</rs>
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