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<p n="672"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo266">Middlesex</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo267">Westminster</rs>
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to wit</note>
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<p n="673">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n673-1">George Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n673-2">Henry Wright</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n673-3">Mary</rs>
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Wife of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n673-4">John Green</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before Us two of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45021_occ109">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County City and Liberty</p>
<p n="674">Who being severally upon Oath say and first this<lb></lb>
Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n674-1">George Smith</rs>
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for himself<del>that her</del>
<lb></lb>
Saith that he is the Governor or Keeper of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo268">Tothill fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo269">Bridewell</rs>
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in the City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo270">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that on the Tenth day of September last he received<lb></lb>
into his Custody a person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself William Lems Under or Warrant of<lb></lb>
Committment of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n674-2">George Reid</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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of his Majesty's Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace for the said City and Liberty on a Charge of<lb></lb>
Forging two Drafts the one for the payment of the<lb></lb>
Sum of Fifteen pounds the other of Forty eight<lb></lb>
pounds eighteen Shillings<obscured></obscured>
under<lb></lb>
a Warrant detainer<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
by the said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n674-3">George Reid</rs>
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Esqmore and also of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n674-4">George Mercer</rs>
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Esquire two of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace bearing date the 13th. day of September 1774<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n674-5">William Lewis</rs>
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remained in this Informt<lb></lb>
Custody untill the 13th. of October instant that about<lb></lb>
Eight o Clock in the Evening he was Informed<lb></lb>
by the other Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n674-6">Henry Wright</rs>
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who is the<lb></lb>
Turnkey at the said prison that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n674-7">William<lb></lb>
Lewis</rs>
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had escaped out of the said prison in Woman<lb></lb>
Cloaths<lb></lb>
And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n674-8">Henry Wright</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
saith that he is Turnkey at the said Prison<lb></lb>
called <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo271">Tothill fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo272">Bridewell</rs>
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and had the Case<lb></lb>
of the Gate of the said Prison on the Thirteenth<lb></lb>
of October instant. that between three and four<lb></lb>
o Clock in the afternoon of the same day he saw</p>
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