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1789

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Middlesex
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The Information of John Jarvis< no role > John
Coombes
< no role > and Fanny his Wife taken be pre
me this 26th. Day of May 1789

Who being upon Oath severally say and first
the said John Jarvis< no role > for himself says that having
received Information that a large Quantity of payer part
of which goes under the Denomination of Waste paper
and the other [..] part under the Denomination of Books
in Sheets now printing his property was depositea in the House of
the Informant Coombes in Great Wild Sheet, he went thither
and in the Shop and Kitchen of the said House he
found the paper now produced which is his property
and [..] says that the same was stolen fromthehis
Warehouse belonging to this printing Office in Wild
CourtAnd the said JohnCoombes< no role > for himself
says that he has several Times bought paper like
that now produced of a person now present who calls
himself Richard Barber< no role > , and further says that
the paper now produced and which was this Day
taken from his house is part of the paper he so
purchased from the said Richard Barber< no role > And
the said [..] Fanny Coombes< no role > for herself says that
she has several times bought paper like that now
produced of the said Richard Barber< no role > And the said
John Coombes< no role > and [..] Fanny his Wife both further
say, that having lately had reason to suspect that the sd.
Richard Barber< no role > did not come [..] this by the said paper
they caused Enquiries to be made of Richard Neither said and found that Informt.
John Jarvis< no role > was the owner thereof

Sworn the day and Year
aforesaid before me

Addington

Jno. Jarvis< no role >

his
John [mark] Coombes< no role >
Mark

James Coombes< no role >




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