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<p n="112"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo62">Middlesex</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo63">City and<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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to wit.}</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n112-1">John Pemberton</rs>
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one of the<lb></lb>
Watchmen of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo64">St. Mary le bone</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo65">County of Middlesex</rs>
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taken upon Oath before me<lb></lb>
one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45015_occ10">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in & for<lb></lb>
the said County City & Liberty this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45015_date22">13th January 1770</rs>
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<p n="113">This Informant being upon his Oath saith; that as he was calling the<lb></lb>
Hour of Twelve last Night (to wit Friday Night the 12th Inst.) in margaret<lb></lb>
Street, He this Informant was called to by another Watchman who is now<lb></lb>
personally Present whose Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n113-1">Samuel Oliver</rs>
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, The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n113-2">Samuel Oliver</rs>
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<lb></lb>
telling him this Informant that there was a Shop then breaking open<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo66">Oxford Street</rs>
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, & that he desired this Informant to come to help him to<lb></lb>
apprehend the Offenders, who were then at work, in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
breaking<lb></lb>
open the Same; And that accordingly this Informant went along with<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n113-3">Samuel Oliver</rs>
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to the place, where they saw there<del>four</del>
Men breaking<lb></lb>
open the Outside Shutters of a Shop Window in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo67">Oxford Street</rs>
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, and that one<lb></lb>
of the said three<del>four</del>
Men's Name is Louis a Smith who works now or lately<lb></lb>
did, for Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n113-4">Robert Hayes</rs>
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a Master Smith in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo68">Oxford Street</rs>
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; and that<lb></lb>
upon this Informant and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n113-5">Samuel Olivers</rs>
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coming up to the place where<lb></lb>
they were breaking into, the said three<del>four</del>
Men seperated and dispersed<lb></lb>
but that soon after this Informant going to the said Shop Window, found<lb></lb>
the said three<del>four</del>
Men there again at Work in breaking open the said<lb></lb>
Shutters, And they did actually break open the said Shutter and made<lb></lb>
a large hole therein, of the whole length of the Pannell, & wide Enough<lb></lb>
for a man to thrust his Arm through, quite up to his Shoulder, And<lb></lb>
this Informant upon his Oath saith that the said Shutter was so broke<lb></lb>
by the said three<del>four</del>
men, in order to rob the said Shop (<del>of whom the said Louis</del>
was one)</p>
<p n="114">Sworn before me this 13th Janry. 1770.}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n114-1">John Lane</rs>
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<p n="115"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n115-1">John Pemberton</rs>
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