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<p n="322"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo253">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n322-1">John Nicholas</rs>
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Watter <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ67">Servant</rs>
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to Messrs. <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo254">Gatfield</rs>
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and Wilson of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo255">Newgate Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Hatters taken before me this 28th. day of Janry.<lb></lb>
1783.</p>
<p n="323">Who being on Oath says that on the sixth of December last in the<lb></lb>
Evening he was sent<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
with<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a Paper Hat Box<lb></lb>
containing as he believes a dozen & half of Chips Hats four other<lb></lb>
Hats and about six Gards of Persian, to the Plough in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo256">Princes<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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directed to Miss Cuthbert at Hadley. That he had charge<lb></lb>
of a Parcel also at this time which he was to leave in Pall-<lb></lb>
Malls. That near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo257">Hungerford Street</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo258">the Strand</rs>
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a Man came<lb></lb>
up to this Informant and asked him "if his Name was not Billy<lb></lb>
Cox and whether he did not live at Wells & Fishers" this<lb></lb>
Informant answered No and believes told said Man that he lived<lb></lb>
at Messrs. Gat fields and Wilsons in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo259">Newgate Street</rs>
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That when<lb></lb>
they were near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo260">Northumberland House</rs>
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he thinks the said Man<lb></lb>
asked to see the Direction on the Box and which this Informant<lb></lb>
permitted said Man to see. That after said Man had read the<lb></lb>
Direction he said that He Knew the person to whom it was<lb></lb>
directed"That they then crossed the Street together and when<lb></lb>
they came to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo261">Golden Cross</rs>
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, the said Man wished this Infor-<lb></lb>
-mant a Good Night and went up the Gate-way. And this<lb></lb>
Informant further says he doth verily believe that a Person<lb></lb>
new present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n323-1">Lawrence Barew</rs>
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is the<lb></lb>
identical Person that so came up to him and held the<lb></lb>
Conversation with him as before stated. That after leaving</p>
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