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<p n="278"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo228">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n278-1">Richard Woolger</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n278-2">Edmund Wade</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken on Oath before me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ59">Justices of<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County the Twentieth day of January<lb></lb>
one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty three</p>
<p n="279">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n279-1">Richard Woolger</rs>
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Saith That he is Coachman to Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n279-2">Robert Harrison</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo229">Hoxton</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo230">Saint Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
And Saith that on Wednesday Evening last about seven o' Clock the<lb></lb>
Coach house belonging to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n279-3">Robert Harrison</rs>
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his Master was<lb></lb>
fastned and Locked up by this Informant at which time this Informant<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
left the same so locked up and Saith that on going to the said<lb></lb>
Coach house the next morning he found the same had been broke open<lb></lb>
and robbed of one Hammer Cloth the property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n279-4">Robert<lb></lb>
Harrison</rs>
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his Master And further Saith that the Hammer cloth<lb></lb>
now produced in the same which was stolen out of the Coach house<lb></lb>
as aforesaid.</p>
<p n="280"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n280-1">Richd. Woolger</rs>
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</p>
<p n="281">And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n281-1">Edmund Wade</rs>
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Saith That on Wednesday Evening<lb></lb>
last about Eight O'Clock he met <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n281-2">William Rose</rs>
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the Prisoner now<del>in<lb></lb>
Custody</del>
under Examination in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo231">Bishopsgate street</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo232">spital Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
going along towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo233">Bishopsgate</rs>
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with a Bundle under his Arm, That<lb></lb>
this Informant knowing<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n281-3">William Rose</rs>
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to be a person of bad<lb></lb>
fame and suspecting the Bundle to have been stolen he followed<lb></lb>
him about two Hundred Yards when this Informant attempted to<lb></lb>
Seize hold of him, Upon this the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n281-4">William Rose</rs>
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threw down the<lb></lb>
Bundle which he held under his Arm<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
That this Informant took up the<lb></lb>
Bundle and run after the Prisoner Rose who had attempted to run<lb></lb>
away and make his Escape That this Informant pursued him as for<lb></lb>
as <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo234">Moorfields</rs>
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where he took<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
him into Custody. And this<lb></lb>
Informant further Saith That the said Bundle Contained in Pillow,<lb></lb>
and the Hammer cloth now produced by him, and before Sworn to<lb></lb>
by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n281-5">Richard Woolger</rs>
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to be the property of and to have been<lb></lb>
stolen from, the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n281-6">Robert Harrison</rs>
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as aforesaid.</p>
<p n="282">Taken and Sworn at the Public<lb></lb>
Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo235">Worship street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo236">shoreditch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the day and Year aforesaid before me}</p>
<p n="283">Penleaze.</p>
<p n="284"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n284-1">Edmd Wade</rs>
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