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<p n="6"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo4">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n6-1">Ann Smythies</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n6-2">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Gould</rs>
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taken before me this 9th.. day of January<lb></lb>
1782.</p>
<p n="7">Who being on Oath say and first the said Ann Smythin for<lb></lb>
herself says that a Hoop Diamond Ring now produced is her<lb></lb>
property and as she verify believes was feloniously stolen<lb></lb>
out of her House at Colchester since the beginning of<lb></lb>
September last during which time a Person now present<lb></lb>
who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n7-1">Ann Tobin</rs>
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was her <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ4">Servant</rs>
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. And<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n7-2">Elizabeth Gould</rs>
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says that she is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ5">Servant</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n7-3">Christopher Wildman</rs>
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of Strand Pawnbroker says<lb></lb>
that on Wednesday last the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n7-4">Ann Tobin</rs>
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brought the<lb></lb>
said Ring to her Masters Shop, wanted to sell it, asked<lb></lb>
three Guineas for it and said it had been given to her<lb></lb>
by her Husband.</p>
<p n="8"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n8-1">Anne Smythies</rs>
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<p n="9">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n9-1">Ann<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Smythies</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="10">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
8th.. day of Janry.. 1782}</p>
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