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<p n="4197"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo1689">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4197-1">John Polly</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 4th. day of December 1773</p>
<p n="4198">Who being upon Oath says that on a Sunday in the month of September<lb></lb>
last he had some Conversation with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-1">John Taylor</rs>
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whom he then told that<lb></lb>
he intended to leave his Master, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-2">John Taylor</rs>
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observed it was<lb></lb>
a difficult Matter to live by Honesty and that if this Informant<lb></lb>
would go with him it should be a Guinea or two in his Pocket,<lb></lb>
that this Informant lay at the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-3">John Taylor</rs>
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's Lodgings that Hight<lb></lb>
and the next day they both went to the house of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-4">Ann Montague</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo1690">Hanover Square</rs>
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where the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-5">John Taylor</rs>
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had been at Work<lb></lb>
before, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-6">John Taylor</rs>
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and this Informant broke open a Desk<lb></lb>
a Hair Trunk a Cabinet a little Box & Cloaths Box in different parts<lb></lb>
of the said house out of which they stole in all about 9 Guineas in<lb></lb>
Money two Crown pieces and a Half Crown and about 40 pieces of<lb></lb>
foreign Silver Coin and some pieces of foreign Gold Coin and two<lb></lb>
green purses a white Mourning Ring and some Straps or Hat Bands made of Silk & Silver<lb></lb>
one of which this Informant sold to Mr. Davies the Jew for a Shilling<lb></lb>
that the sold the said Ring to the said Jew for nine Shillings<lb></lb>
that the whole Amount of what they so stole was about £20, that<lb></lb>
the said pieces of foreign Gold Coin were sold by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-7">John Taylor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and this Informant to the said Mr. Davis the Jew, that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-8">John Taylor</rs>
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told this Informant that one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-9">James Booth</rs>
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and the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-10">John Taylor</rs>
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had some days before broke open a Chest of Drawers<lb></lb>
a small Desk a Cloaths Box in the said house and stolen thereout<lb></lb>
a Remnant of Sattin 2 or 3 Silk Gowns a pair of Ear Rings, a Silver<lb></lb>
Snuff Box a Gold Smelling Bottle a Ring & about ten pounds in<lb></lb>
Silver consisting of Crown pieces Etc a pair of Buck skin Breeches<lb></lb>
Etc and that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n4198-11">James Booth</rs>
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had the Smelling Bottle Snuff Box<lb></lb>
and Ear Rings that the Gowns were in Pawn for two Guineas</p>
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