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about seven Months
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That on Tuesday the 17th. instant an Handkerchief now
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produced containing Forty Crown Pieces two gold Rings
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two pair of Silver Buckles, twenty two Guineas, six
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Silver Tea Spoons, a pair of silver Tea Tongs and other things
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were Stolen out of this Informants HouseThat Suspecting the said
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who had robbed him he caused him to be apprehended and
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on this Informants searching him at the Brown Bear
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Sworn before me this
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24th. day of Septemr. 1782}
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W Addington
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