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<p n="181"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo162">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n181-1">Charles Joseph Douglas</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ40">Esqr</rs>
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. of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo163">Witton</rs>
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Hall in the County of Dunham taken<lb></lb>
before me this 28th. day of December 1782.</p>
<p n="182">Who being on Oath says as this Informant was going into<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo164">Theatre</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo165">Royal in Covent Garden</rs>
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this Evening, he perceived<lb></lb>
a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n182-1">George Barrington</rs>
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<lb></lb>
behind him. That when the Door opened leading to the Pit, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n182-2">George Barrington</rs>
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pressed hard against this Informant,<lb></lb>
at which instant this Informant felt his Watch go out of<lb></lb>
his fob and catched the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n182-3">George Barrington</rs>
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's Right hand<lb></lb>
in this Informant's Right hand Breeches pocket. That upon<lb></lb>
this Informant laying hold of said Barrington's hand, he<lb></lb>
jumped from him and ran away, but was immediately secured.<lb></lb>
And further says he is very sure that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n182-5">George<lb></lb>
Barrington</rs>
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feloniously stole his said Watch.</p>
<p n="183">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
28th. day of Decemr. 1782.}</p>
<p n="184"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n184-1">Sampr Wright</rs>
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<p n="185">Chas. Jor. Douglas</p>
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