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The Information of
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taken before me
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12th. day of January 1769
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Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said George
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for himself says that he lives in Mr. Bromfields's house
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at Chelsea, says that between 6 & 7 o' Clock yesterday Evening
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hearing a Noise about the Ligeon house he went with one
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John
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Cole
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to see who was there, says that after some Search they found
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two persons now present who call themselves Monwell Peartree
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one in the said Pigeon house the other
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near it, says that after the said two persons were secured in
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the Cage he was informed that one of them had acknowledged
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that they had killed two Doves and had likewise took a Plant
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up out of the Garden and put it into a Pot, says that he
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accordingly went again to search and found two dead Pigeons
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and a certain Plant or shrub called a Speekled Gold leaved Savin of
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the value of five Shillings and upwards which had been plucked
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up out of the Garden Ground of the said
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Wm. Bromfield
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Esqr. says
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that he does therefore suspect and verily believe that the said
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William Merchant
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did feloniously
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in the Night Time pluck up and carry away the said Plant or
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Shrub called a Speckled Gold leaved Savin out of the Garden Ground
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Esqr.and the said
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Richard Winter
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for
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himself says that he has this Morning seen the said plant or
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Shrub and is very sure that is the same plant or Shrub
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which he has frequently seen in the said Mr. Bromfield Garden
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Sworn before me
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Janry. 12. 1769}
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George Hurle
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his
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