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to wit

The Information of Mrs. Sarah Minshaw< no role >
at the Corner of Bloomsbury Church at the
Golden Anchor, Wife of Wm. Minshaw< no role > Gent
taken before me this 17th. April 1749 .

Who being upon Oath Says, that a Person now Present who calls
himself James Brown< no role > als Thompson< no role > came into her Shop with
another person whose Name is unknownandthis afternoon, and
as soon as they came in the said Brown als Thompson ask'd to look
at a Peice of Clock for Shorts, and the other person desire to look
at some Linnen Cloth, Says that whilst this Informt. was Selling
some Cloth to the other person, the said Brown als Thompson
feloniously and privately took and Carryed out of the said
Shop a quantity of Linnen Cloth the properly of this Informt's.
[..] and Elizabeth Ball< no role > , And this Informt. further says,
that she is very Possitive to the said Brown als Thompson, and
that the Saw him take out of the Shop the said Cloth underthe
the Flatt of his Coat.

Sworn before me
this 17th day of April
1749 .

H Fielding

Sarah Minshaw< no role >