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<p n="723"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo547">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n723-1">John Bell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n723-2">Patrick<lb></lb>
Mc Manns</rs>
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taken before me this 11th. day of<lb></lb>
March 1783</p>
<p n="724">Who being upon Oath say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n724-1">John Bell</rs>
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says that a Peacock now produced is the property of his<lb></lb>
Grace The Duke of Northumberland and was stolen either<lb></lb>
on Thursday Night or Friday morning last from his Graces<lb></lb>
Premises at Sion in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo548">County of Middlesex</rs>
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together with<lb></lb>
two other Peacocks and a Turkey Hen-That having some<lb></lb>
suspicion that the said Birds were concealed in the Possession<lb></lb>
of two Persons now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n724-2">George<lb></lb>
Mc Dougal</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n724-3">Mary Ward</rs>
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, he obtained a Search Warrant<lb></lb>
to search their Premises in Holborn-That when he<lb></lb>
went to their House he asked the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n724-4">Mary Ward</rs>
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after Several other Question, whether she had<lb></lb>
any pied Peacocks to Sell, as he wanted to send them on board<lb></lb>
Ship that Night, to which she replied, it was not in her<lb></lb>
power to let him have any that Night, but in the Course<lb></lb>
of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
two days she couldThat he went away to said<lb></lb>
Mc. Manus and they returned to Search said House<lb></lb>
That he went up into a one pair of Stairs Room in said<lb></lb>
House, the WIndow of which was open, where he saw the<lb></lb>
said Peacock now produced standing on some Tiles of<lb></lb>
ashed on the outside of the Window of the Yard and that<lb></lb>
in said Room was a Quantity of Corn and Barley<lb></lb>
scattered on the Floor, apparently for he said Bird to feed on and<lb></lb>
no other Bird in said RoomThat Previous to his<lb></lb>
going into said one pair of Stairs Room he went into<lb></lb>
the Yard where the said Shed was, when he is very<lb></lb>
sure there was no Peacock standing thereonAnd the<lb></lb>
said Patrick Mc. Manus says that he went with said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n724-7">John Bell</rs>
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to execute said Search Warrant and after<lb></lb>
searching the Yard of said Mc. Dougals and Wards house<lb></lb>
he went up to said One pair of Stairs Room where the said</p>
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