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<p n="1923"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1235">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1923-1">Jeremiah Smith</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1923-2">Henry<lb></lb>
Cordell</rs>
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taken and made on Oath before me one of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1236">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the 13th. day of October<lb></lb>
1781.</p>
<p n="1924">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1924-1">Jeremiah Smith</rs>
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saith that <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he<lb></lb>
is an Iron monger and lives in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1237">Shoreditch</rs>
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in the said County<lb></lb>
That on Thursday last the 11th. Instant about six o'Clock<lb></lb>
in the Evening the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1924-2">Henry Cordell</rs>
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came into this Infor-<lb></lb>
mants Shop and acquainted him that a Man had stolen an<lb></lb>
Iron Stove from this Informants Shop Door and was gone<lb></lb>
with it up the Street towards the Church, Whereupon this<lb></lb>
Informant went after the Man and overtook him with it<lb></lb>
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under his Arm before he had got on for as the Church<lb></lb>
That the Person who had stolen the Stove, who says his<lb></lb>
Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1924-4">Abraham Yowell</rs>
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, seing this Informant pursuing<lb></lb>
him, immediately threw down the Stove and endeavoured<lb></lb>
to make his Escape, but was stopped by another Person<lb></lb>
and taken into Custody</p>
<p n="1925">And this Informant Henry Cordell saith that he saw<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1925-1">Abraham Yowell</rs>
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steal the said iron Stove<lb></lb>
from the said Mr. Smiths Shop Door and go away with<lb></lb>
it towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1238">Shoreditch Church</rs>
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, and this Informant<lb></lb>
acquainted Mr. Smith therewith.</p>
<p n="1926">Taken and sworn the day and<lb></lb>
Year first above mentioned}</p>
<p n="1927">D Wilmot</p>
<p n="1928"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1928-1">Jeremiah Smith</rs>
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<p n="1929">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1929-1">Henry<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Cordell</rs>
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