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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n92-1">John Ward</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n92-2">William Bailey</rs>
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of the Parish of<lb></lb>
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London taken and made on<lb></lb>
Oath before<del>me</del>
us <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n92-3">David Wilmot</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n92-4">Rice Davies</rs>
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two<del>One</del>
of his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15094_occ56">Majestys Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo89">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the seventh day of February 1783.</p>
<p n="93"> <del>Who</del>
This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n93-1">William Bailey</rs>
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on his Oath Saith That on the 25th. day of December last<lb></lb>
between five and Six O' Clock in the Evening he was standing at his<lb></lb>
Masters door No 159 in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo90">Bishopsgate street</rs>
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, when two men came up<lb></lb>
to him to the door and asked him if <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n93-2">Molly Homewood</rs>
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was at home<lb></lb>
to which this Informant Answered no she was not, but that she was<lb></lb>
gone to her fathers, One of the men said that they had a Bundle for her<lb></lb>
which came from her brother at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo91">Portsmouth</rs>
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and desired this Informant<lb></lb>
to go into the house with them, when this Informant was in the house<lb></lb>
with the two men and going to open the Handkerchief one of the men<lb></lb>
<del>if</del>
Snatched the handkerchief from him and said to the other will you<lb></lb>
go up Stairs or shall I go up, And this Informant Saith that<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n93-3">Edward Muzred</rs>
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otherwise Muslin now under Examination<lb></lb>
is the person who made Answer that he would go up Stairs and<lb></lb>
accordingly did go up and that about Two or three Minutes afterwards<lb></lb>
the other person who was below stairs took this Informant by the<lb></lb>
Collar and pushed him into the Cole hole and fastned the Cole hole<lb></lb>
door with a Button and a Gimlet and when he thought they was gone<lb></lb>
he got out thereof by means of a Drawer, and found the street door<lb></lb>
open and suspecting the house to have been Robbed he acquainted the<lb></lb>
neighbours of what had happened.</p>
<p n="94">And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n94-1">John Ward</rs>
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Saith that his said House in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo92">Bishopsgate street</rs>
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was Robbed on the Twenty fifth day of December<lb></lb>
last of fourteen Guineas and upwards, Twenty Yards of Irish<lb></lb>
Linnen Cloth, One Silver Table spoon, Eight silver Tea spoons<lb></lb>
One silver Cream mug two Salt spoons and a Pair of Tea Tongs<lb></lb>
One<del>Plac</del>
Gold Ring and one pair of Plated Shoe Buckles and other<lb></lb>
things his property</p>
<p n="95">Taken and Sworn the<lb></lb>
day and Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
before us}<lb></lb>
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<p n="96">The mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n96-1">William<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Bailey</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n96-2">John Ward</rs>
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