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<p n="1"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45020_geo1">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n1-1">John Hope</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 10th. day of December 1772</p>
<p n="2">Who being upon Oath says that on the 3d. day of December<lb></lb>
Instant he was drinking at the Black horse Alehouse in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45020_geo2">Bell yard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45020_geo3">Temple Bar</rs>
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, that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-1">Christopher Lawless</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-2">Thomas Plunkett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now present came into the said house, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-3">Christopher<lb></lb>
Lawless</rs>
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pulled a Watch now produced out of his Pocket and delivered<lb></lb>
it to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-4">Thomas Plunkett</rs>
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, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-5">Thomas Plunkett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
desired this Informant to pawn the said Watch for him, that upon<lb></lb>
this Informant asking the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-6">Thomas Plunkett</rs>
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why he could<lb></lb>
not pawn the Watch himself the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-7">Thomas Plunkett</rs>
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said<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-8">Christopher Lawless</rs>
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had tried to pawn it at several<lb></lb>
places but could get no more than sixteen or eighteen Shillings<lb></lb>
upon it. that this Informant went and offered the said Watch<lb></lb>
to pawn at Mr. Jarvis's in Fetter Lane, that upon the Pawnbroker<lb></lb>
stopping the said Watch this Informant went back<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
to the<lb></lb>
Black horse Alehouse aforesaid where he found the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-9">Thomas Plunkett</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-10">Christopher Lawless</rs>
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. that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-11">Thomas Plunkett</rs>
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and another Man in a brown Coat went with<lb></lb>
this Informant to the Pawnbroker's Door and this Informant<lb></lb>
and the said Man in a brown Coat went in, that the said Man<lb></lb>
asked the Pawnbroker why he stopt the said Watch and<lb></lb>
then went away and this Informant went also, that when he<lb></lb>
came back to the Black horse he found the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-12">Thomas Plunkett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
there, that about 5 Weeks ago he took a black horse from the<lb></lb>
Pewter Platter in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45020_geo4">St. John Street</rs>
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to the New Inn over Westmr.<lb></lb>
Bridge at the desire of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45020_n2-13">Christopher Lawless</rs>
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, that about<lb></lb>
a Month or five weeks ago he took two brown horses at</p>
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