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<p n="1531"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1082">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1531-1">Thomas Jacks</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1531-2">Edward<lb></lb>
Dela force</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1531-3">Thomas Manwaring</rs>
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Taken<lb></lb>
and made on Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1531-4">David Wilmot</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ371">Esquire</rs>
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one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ372">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1083">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the 17th. day<lb></lb>
day of September 1782.</p>
<p n="1532">These Informants on their Oaths respectively Say And first<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1532-1">Thomas Jacks</rs>
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for himself Saith That on Thursday<lb></lb>
the Twelfth day of September Instant he with the other Informants<lb></lb>
was acquant that some Stolen Goods were Concealed that<lb></lb>
Morning in the Dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1532-2">George Franklin</rs>
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at No. 36<lb></lb>
in Duke street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1084">Old Artillery Ground</rs>
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and on receiving such<lb></lb>
Information they immediately went to the said Franklin's house<lb></lb>
and the door being open they went into the same And this<lb></lb>
Informant Saith that the other Informants Delaforce and<lb></lb>
Manwaring went up stairs with Franklin in order to search<lb></lb>
for such stolen Goods, this Informant staying below stairs during<lb></lb>
that time That soon after Manwaring came down stairs and<lb></lb>
immediately with this Informant went down into the Celler<lb></lb>
and on entring the outer Celler they found <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1532-4">James Scott</rs>
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now under<lb></lb>
Examination without a Coat on, That Scott immediately<lb></lb>
pointed to a door into the next Cellar and Said to this Informant<lb></lb>
there it is, That this Informant immediately lifted up a large<lb></lb>
green Cloth which hung over the door and endeavoured to push<lb></lb>
open the same when it was opened to him by some person within<lb></lb>
where he found <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1532-5">Isaac Votear</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1532-6">Thomas Deane</rs>
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now under<lb></lb>
Examination standing up in the Cellar with their Coals off<lb></lb>
and their shirt sleeves turned up, with Candles burning and<lb></lb>
a press for Stamping of Half pence and a Quantity of new Half pence<lb></lb>
made and immediately Deane offered this Informant to give<lb></lb>
him Forty Quineas to let him and Volear go and this Informant<lb></lb>
might take away the Tools, That this Informant and the other<lb></lb>
Informant Manwaring then took Votear and Deane into Custody<lb></lb>
And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1532-7">Thomas Manwaring</rs>
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Saith That he<lb></lb>
was present at the same time with Jacks and did see the<lb></lb>
above Transaction and found two Dyes in the Press in the Cellar<lb></lb>
where Votear and Deane were found And this Informant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1532-8">Edward Delaforce</rs>
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Saith that he was in the house with the<lb></lb>
other Informants and went up stairs into the Work shop of<lb></lb>
Franklin which Franklin unlocked and upon making<lb></lb>
Search found a Quantity of bad Half pence together with a<lb></lb>
Quantity of bad Silver and on Franklin's desk was a Pocket<lb></lb>
book which this Informant Inspected and found there in</p>
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