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<p n="962"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo333">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n962-1">Matthew Matthewson</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45015_date57">28th. day of February 1770</rs>
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<p n="963">Who being upon Oath says that he knows <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-1">Benjamin Murphy</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Bird</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-3">John Bird</rs>
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, says that on Thursday Night was Sevenight the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-4">Thomas Bird</rs>
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the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-5">John Bird</rs>
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the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-6">Benjamin Murphy</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and this Informant broke open a house in China Row Chelsea,<lb></lb>
from whence they Stole a great Quantity of Plate which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-7">Thomas<lb></lb>
Bird</rs>
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sold part of it to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-8">Sarah Pitman</rs>
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otherwise Cave in his own Room in<lb></lb>
his father's house in Shepherd's Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo334">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and the Remainder of it to<lb></lb>
a Jew in the Same place, says that on a Sunday Night about a Month or<lb></lb>
five Weeks ago the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-9">Benjamin Murphy</rs>
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the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-10">Thomas Bird</rs>
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<del>the</del>
<lb></lb>
<del>and</del>
a person who goes by the Name of Jem Dumby and this Informant<lb></lb>
broke open a Hosier's Shop in Holborn and Stole a Quantity of Stockings<lb></lb>
which were sold by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-11">Thomas Bird</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-12">Benjamin Murphy</rs>
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to a Jew<lb></lb>
in Mrs. Evans's in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo335">St. Giles's</rs>
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, says that Saturday Night was sevenight<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-13">John Bird</rs>
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and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-14">Benjamin Murphy</rs>
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called to this Informant<lb></lb>
who was then in his own Room in Bambridge Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo336">St. Giles's</rs>
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and desired him<lb></lb>
to go out with them, that he did not go with them but lent them a Chisel<lb></lb>
that the next Morning the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-15">Benjamin Murphy</rs>
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and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-16">John<lb></lb>
Bird</rs>
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told this Informant that they had broke open a house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo337">Parliament<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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and had left the Plate they had Stolen with one Hannah at Mrs. Evans's<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo338">St. Giles's</rs>
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, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-17">John Bird</rs>
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then had on a pair of Breeches which<lb></lb>
he told this Informant he had stolen out of the said house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo339">Parliament Street</rs>
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& which<lb></lb>
he afterwards exchanged for another pair in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo340">Monmouth Street</rs>
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, says<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-18">John Bird</rs>
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has Since told this Informant that they had sold<lb></lb>
the said Plate to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n963-19">Sarah Pitman</rs>
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otherwise Cave</p>
<p n="964">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
Febry. 28 1770</p>
<p n="965"> <obscured></obscured>
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<p n="966"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n966-1">Matthew Matthewson</rs>
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