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<p n="1801"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo701">Middlesex</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo702">Westminster</rs>
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to wit<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1801-1">Jonathan Dunbar</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45018_date88">25th. day of March 1772</rs>
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<p n="1802">Who being upon Oath says that he knows Samuel Graytrix <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1802-1">John Sharpless</rs>
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otherwise Hall and Prickard Beck <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1802-2">John Bonnell</rs>
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and one Duffield who<lb></lb>
are all common Cheats, says that on Monday last the said Samuel Graytrix<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1802-3">John Sharpless</rs>
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otherwise Hall having taken a Lodging in Muscory Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo703">Tower<lb></lb>
hill</rs>
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sent this Informant to a Linen Draper whose Name he believes to be<lb></lb>
Crompton upon <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo704">Tower hill</rs>
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to order in two Pieces of Irish Linen and half a piece<lb></lb>
of Muslin that the said Linen Draper accordingly sent in the said<lb></lb>
Goods and the said Graytrix and Sharpless by Fraudulent Means<lb></lb>
obtained the said Goods and pawned them at a Pawn broker's in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo705">Oxford<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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; says that last Friday the said Graytrix and Sharpless having<lb></lb>
taken a Lodging in Thread needle Street Sent this Informant to Mr. Yerbury's<lb></lb>
the Hosier with an Order in Writing which was wrote by Sharpless<lb></lb>
for 4 Doz. pair of Silk Stockings which Order this Informant left<lb></lb>
at Mr. Yerbury's & the said Mr. Yerbury sent them 3 ½ Doz. of Silk<lb></lb>
Stockings which the said Graytrix and Sharpless by frandulent Means<lb></lb>
obtained from the said Mr. Yerbury's Servant & afterwards prisoned<lb></lb>
3 Doz. of them in Poulteney Street; that about a Week ago the said<lb></lb>
Samuel Graytrix <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1802-4">John Sharpless</rs>
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and this Informant took a Lodging at<lb></lb>
No. 104 Bishops gate Street and ordered in 3 Cardinals & 2 Benenants of<lb></lb>
Velverets from a Shop in Hounds ditch which were brought by one Morris<lb></lb>
an Apprentices to the said Shop keeper who left the said Goods with this<lb></lb>
Informant and was privy to the Fraud intended upon his Master and<lb></lb>
that one James Wylan who is acquainted with the said Morris was<lb></lb>
also privy to the Fraud and had a Share of the Profits as well<lb></lb>
as the said Morris, that the said Goods were disposed of by the<lb></lb>
said James Wylan; that about a fortnight ago the said Sharpless<lb></lb>
the said Graytrix took a Lodging in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo706">Queen Square</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo707">Westminster</rs>
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and fraudulently obtained from a Hosier in Bridge Street 6<lb></lb>
pair of Silk Stockings 3 Pr. of Which were pawned at the</p>
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