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<p n="19"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo11">Westminster</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n19-1">John Gordon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n19-2">John Rhodes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n19-3">Elizabeth Robinson</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n19-4">Jonathan Raine</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
One of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45017_occ4">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the said City & Liberty</p>
<p n="20">Who Severally being upon Oath say and first<lb></lb>
this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n20-1">John Gordon</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
saith that on Saturday the 29th. of December<lb></lb>
last about 10 o'Clock at Night he was coming<lb></lb>
out of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo12">Opera House</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo13">Hay Market</rs>
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<del>and</del>
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as soon as he was out of the Crowd he left<lb></lb>
for his pocket Book & found that<del>in</del>
his Pocket<lb></lb>
had been Picked of it and saith that the said Pocket<lb></lb>
Book was a Red Morocco Book and Contained<lb></lb>
at the time it was Stole a Bank Note of the<lb></lb>
Value of 20Ls: with several other Papers<lb></lb>
& among them a Bill of Exchange Drawn<lb></lb>
by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n20-2">Jasper Atkinson</rs>
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upon this Informant<lb></lb>
for 20Ls. which said Bill had been Accepted <lb></lb>
by & Paid for this Informant on the 29th<lb></lb>
of Novr. fast And this Informant further<lb></lb>
saith that the said Bill of Exchange was<lb></lb>
brought to him Yesterday by and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n20-3">David<lb></lb>
Rhodes</rs>
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to know if the Same was a Good Bill<lb></lb>
and whether the Informant would pay it<lb></lb>
Whereupon<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he Stopped the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n20-4">David Rhodes</rs>
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who upon his Examination<lb></lb>
declared it had been delivered to him by his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45017_occ5">Brother</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n20-5">John Rhodes</rs>
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<del>which said Pocket<lb></lb>
Book now produced</del>
And this Informant<lb></lb>
further saith that the Red Moroco Pocket Book<lb></lb>
now Paed used is the Pocket Book which was<lb></lb>
Stolen from this Informant at the time &<lb></lb>
place aforesaid & which did then contain<lb></lb>
the Bank Note of 20L<obscured></obscured>
several other Papers<lb></lb>
and the Bill of Exchange as above described<lb></lb>
And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n20-6">John Rhodes</rs>
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for himself</p>
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