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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2563-1">Robert Christie</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2563-2">Henry Port</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2563-3">John Odam</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me One of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ317">Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace</rs>
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for the said County</p>
<p n="2564">Who severally being upon Oath say and first<lb></lb>
this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2564-1">Robert Christie</rs>
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for himself saith<lb></lb>
that he<del>the servant</del>
keeps a Book sellers<lb></lb>
Shop adjoining to the half Moon alehouse the<lb></lb>
Corner of half Moon Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1018">Piccadilly</rs>
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. that last<lb></lb>
Night about Nine o'Clock he fastened up the<lb></lb>
said Shop and then locked the Door & took the<lb></lb>
Key with him when he fastened up the said<lb></lb>
Shop he left therein<del>the</del>
(among a great Number<lb></lb>
of other Books) the thirteen Printed Books now<lb></lb>
Produced that about Nine o'Clock this Morning<lb></lb>
he came to the said Shop and found that it had<lb></lb>
been broke uponthe Door having been forced Open<lb></lb>
and the Watchman taking care of it who told him<lb></lb>
that he found it broke Open about three o Clock<lb></lb>
in the Morning Upon this Informant's examining<lb></lb>
his said Shop he found that the said thirteen<lb></lb>
Books together with a great Number of other<lb></lb>
Books to the amount in Value of five Pounds<lb></lb>
had been Stolen out of the said Shop<lb></lb>
And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2564-2">John Odan</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
saith that he is a Watchman in Saint Giles<lb></lb>
that about two o'Clock this Morning he Stopped<lb></lb>
a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2564-3">Peter<lb></lb>
Welch</rs>
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with the thirteen Books now Produced<lb></lb>
tied up in a Hand Kerchief which are Sworn<lb></lb>
to be the Property of the other Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2564-4">Robert<lb></lb>
Christie</rs>
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And this Informant Henry Port for himself<lb></lb>
saith that last Night about Six o'Clock that he<lb></lb>
together with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2564-5">Peter Welch</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n2564-6">Wm. Thompson</rs>
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met<lb></lb>
at the Sign of the Green Man on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1019">Saffron Hill</rs>
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& stayed<lb></lb>
there till about 11 'o Clock Wm. Thompson had several<lb></lb>
Chissel & other Tools which he told this Informant was</p>
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