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<p n="1"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n1-1">Hubert Hussey</rs>
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John Pope and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n1-3">John Jones</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me one of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ1">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County</p>
<p n="2">Who being severally upon Oath say and first this<lb></lb>
Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2-1">John Pope</rs>
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for himself oath saith that he<lb></lb>
is <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ2">Shopman</rs>
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to the other Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2-2">Hubert Hussey</rs>
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who lives the Corner of Hays is <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo2">Court Saint Anne</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo3">Westminster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ3">Linen Draper</rs>
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that about half an hour<lb></lb>
Past two oClock this afternoon the two Persons now<lb></lb>
present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2-10">Sarah Jones</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2-3">Mary<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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came to his Master's Shop an tested loser<lb></lb>
some Handkerchiefs & this Informant Sold a Coloured<lb></lb>
Linen Handkerchief to Mary Smith white this Informant<lb></lb>
was serving them he observed Sarah Jones conveying<lb></lb>
some Handkerchiefs under her Apron and they went out<lb></lb>
of the Shop & as soon as they were gone this Informant<lb></lb>
Missed some Pieces of the Handkerchiefs of the same<lb></lb>
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sent now produced upon which he Informed Mr Hussey<lb></lb>
of the Circumstances who pursued<del>then</del>
& brought them back<lb></lb>
to the Shop. & near to the Place where this Informant<del>saw</del>
<lb></lb>
them take<del>suspected</del>
the Handkerchiefs<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the said<lb></lb>
Sarah Jones & Mary Smith went & upon the Floor this<lb></lb>
Informant saw the two Pieces of Handkerchiefs now produced<lb></lb>
which are the Property of the said Hubert Hussey and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2-9">John Whitter</rs>
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and that there was not any thing upon the<lb></lb>
Floor untill the said persons were brought back into the<lb></lb>
Shop in order to be searched as above described</p>
<p n="3">And this Informant John Jones for himself saith<lb></lb>
that soon of Two oClock this afternoon in King<lb></lb>
Street Saint Anne he saw the other Informant<lb></lb>
Hubert Hussey stop the two Women now present who<lb></lb>
call themselves Sarah Jones & Mary Smith &<lb></lb>
told them they must go with him to his Shop upon which<lb></lb>
he went with them to the Shop the Corner of Hays's<lb></lb>
Court & when they came into the Shop this Informant<lb></lb>
saw the two Pieces of Handkerchiefs now produced<lb></lb>
drop from under the Pettycoats of the said Sarah Jones<lb></lb>
<del>and the saud Mary Smith</del>
& Immediately they and Mary Smith made to the<lb></lb>
Door.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
kicked her patten soft and Ran away this Informant</p>
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