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<p n="717"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo221">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n717-1">Sarah Ashbishaw</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n717-2">John Sarson</rs>
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taken before me this 15th. day of<lb></lb>
September 1769</p>
<p n="718">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n718-1">Sarah Ashbishaw</rs>
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Says that on Wednesday Morning last She<lb></lb>
bought a hat now produced of a person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n718-2">John Simmonds</rs>
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, that She ripped the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45013_occ81">Silver Lace</rs>
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off<lb></lb>
the Hat and that the Silver Lace now produced is the same Lace<lb></lb>
that She did so rip off, and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n718-3">John Sarson</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
says that the said hat & Lace is his property and that it was<lb></lb>
stolen from him on Tuesday Night or Wednesday Morning last,<lb></lb>
and these Informants further say that they do verily believe<lb></lb>
that the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n718-4">John Simmonds</rs>
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did feloniously take and carry<lb></lb>
away the said hat</p>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n719-2">Sarah Ashpeshaw</rs>
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<p n="720">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
Septr. 15. 1769}</p>
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