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<p n="65"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo51">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n65-1">William Foster</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n65-2">Joseph Allen</rs>
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Mathew Clark, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n65-3">Brook Crippin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n65-4">Thomas Crippin</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n65-5">Percival Philips</rs>
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taken before me this 13th. day of January 1781</p>
<p n="66">Who being upon Oath say, and first said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-1">William<lb></lb>
Foster</rs>
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says, that two Coats a pair of Breecher a Waistcoat two<lb></lb>
Handkerchiefs a Dressing Gown and a pair of plated Shoe Buckles<lb></lb>
now produced, on his property and were stolen this day out<lb></lb>
of his Lodging Room in the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-2">Thomas Crippin</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
Little Russell Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo52">Drury Lane</rs>
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-The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-3">Mathew Clark</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that he watched<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
two persons now present who call themselves<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-4">George Townsend</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-5">Joseph Edwards</rs>
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this day-That he saw said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-6">George Townsend</rs>
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with a Bundle under his Arm came from out of the house of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-7">Thomas<lb></lb>
Crippin</rs>
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(from where the above Articles were stolen) and that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-8">Joseph Edwards</rs>
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was standing near said House-That<lb></lb>
Suspecting they had robbed the house, he applied to said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-9">Joseph<lb></lb>
Allen</rs>
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, and desired him to follow them-The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-10">Joseph Allen</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that he followed then and apprehended said Townsend<lb></lb>
on whom be found the said two Coats, the pair of Breeches Waistcoat<lb></lb>
Handkerchiefs, and Gown now produced and sworn to by the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-11">William Foster</rs>
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-The said Brook Crippin says, that on the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-12">George Townsend</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-13">Joseph Edwards</rs>
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being apprehended and<lb></lb>
brought back to the Lodging of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-14">William Foster</rs>
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he searched<lb></lb>
him and found in the right hand pocket of his Waistcoat<lb></lb>
the plated Buckles now produced, and is very sure that<lb></lb>
he saw said Townsend drop from out of his Breeches<lb></lb>
in said Room the said two Handkerchiefs now produced<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n66-15">Thomas Crippin</rs>
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for himself says that he is very sure<lb></lb>
a pair of Silver Sugar Tongs now produced on his property</p>
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