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<p n="1494"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1059">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1494-1">Alexander Grant</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1060">St. Martins Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ363">Taylor</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 24th. day of September 1782</p>
<p n="1495">Who being upon Oath says that a person now<lb></lb>
Present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1495-1">William Allen</rs>
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hath worked for<lb></lb>
him as a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ364">Journeyman Taylor</rs>
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about seven Months<lb></lb>
That on Tuesday the 17th. instant an Handkerchief now<lb></lb>
produced containing Forty Crown Pieces two gold Rings<lb></lb>
two pair of Silver Buckles, twenty two Guineas, six<lb></lb>
Silver Tea Spoons, a pair of silver Tea Tongs and other things<lb></lb>
were Stolen out of this Informants HouseThat Suspecting the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1495-2">William Allen</rs>
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to be the Person<lb></lb>
who had robbed him he caused him to be apprehended and<lb></lb>
on this Informants searching him at the Brown Bear<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1061">Bow Street Covent Garden</rs>
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he found concealed in the<lb></lb>
Lining of the Coat of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1495-4">William Allen</rs>
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sewed up<lb></lb>
the said Handkerchief; from which and other Circumstances<lb></lb>
he doth suspect the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1495-5">William Allen</rs>
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to be the Person<lb></lb>
that robbed him as aforesaid</p>
<p n="1496">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
24th. day of Septemr. 1782}</p>
<p n="1497">W Addington</p>
<p n="1498"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1498-1">Alexr. Grant</rs>
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