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1789

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Middx & City
and Liberty of
Westminster to wit}


The Information of John Gray< no role > and George
Cawker
< no role > taken before me George Recd. Esquire
one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in &
for the said County City & Liberty this 20th
Day of July 1789

Who being duly Sworn severally upon their Oath say
and first this Informant John Gray< no role > for himself sayeth
that he lives withathis Father No. 24 Porter that in the
Parish of Saint Anns, in the sd. City & Liberty, that
he has known the Prisoner at the Bar Henry Lane< no role > about
a Year & a half that about a Month ago this Informant
believing the sd. Henry Lane< no role > was in some Degree of Defi
-culty and Distress for a Lodging permitted him to sleep
with this Informant at this Fathers which he did for about
a Weekthat about 3 Week ago this Informant and the
sd. Henry Lane< no role > went to Bed as usual at which Time
this informant was Possesed of the Watch, String & seal
now producedand had about Nineteen twenty Shillings
in Money in his Cocket
thatonethe [..] next Morningabout
3 Week
[..] between 5 & 6 o'Clock the said Henry Lane< no role > got up
and said he was going to his Fathers at Bedfont and
went away And this Informant getting up in a short
Time after missed his Watchand upon examining father
also Missed the Money which had been taken out of his
Breecher Packet




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