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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1555-1">Richard Barfoot</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1555-2">John<lb></lb>
Cundell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1555-3">Charles Welch</rs>
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taken and made<lb></lb>
on Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1555-4">David Wilmot</rs>
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Esquire one<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's Justices of the peace in and<lb></lb>
for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1005">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the 31st. day of<lb></lb>
August 1781</p>
<p n="1556">This Informant<del>on his</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1556-1">Richard Barfoot</rs>
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saith that he<lb></lb>
is a Wine Merchant and lives in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1006">Norton Falgate</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County and that this Morning there was feloniously stolen<lb></lb>
out of his House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1007">Norton Falgate</rs>
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aforesaid which is now<lb></lb>
repairing about fifty six Pounds of Lead this Informants<lb></lb>
property. And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1556-2">John Cundell</rs>
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saith that he<lb></lb>
is servant to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1556-3">Richard Barfoot</rs>
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and that between<lb></lb>
the Hours of seven and eight o'Clock this Morning he saw<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1556-4">John Welch</rs>
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who was employed as a Bricklayers Labourer<lb></lb>
in the repair of the said House come through his said<lb></lb>
Masters shop where this Informant was, with a Basket<lb></lb>
on his Shoulder covered with Showings and went with<lb></lb>
the same up <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1008">Shoreditch</rs>
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. And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1556-5">Charles<lb></lb>
welch</rs>
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saith that he<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
po<obscured></obscured>
a Public House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1009">Shoreditch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said County. That this Morning between the Hours<lb></lb>
of seven and eight o'Clock as this Informant was standing at<lb></lb>
his own Door he saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1556-6">John Welch</rs>
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coming up<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1010">Shoreditch</rs>
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with a Basket on his Shoulder covered on the<lb></lb>
top with Showings. That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1556-7">John Welch</rs>
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nearly opposite<lb></lb>
this Informants House took the said Baskett of this<lb></lb>
Shoulder and rested it upon a Post, ad took some shaving<lb></lb>
out of the Basket which he threw on the Ground. That he<lb></lb>
then took up the Basket again in which this Informant</p>
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