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<p n="2949"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2229">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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THE Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2949-1">Silvanus Hopping</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2230">Ratcliff Highway</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ851">Grocer</rs>
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Taken this 20th Day of November 1783 before me<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ852">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County,</p>
<p n="2950">Who being upon Oath saith that about half past seven O Clock in the Evening<lb></lb>
of the Eighteenth day of Novr. Inst. he and Mr. Woodcock a Neighbour of his were<lb></lb>
Setting in the Parlour behind his Shop when a person came<lb></lb>
into the Shop and asked for a Penny worth of Tobacco which<lb></lb>
he Served him with but having some suspicion from his looking<lb></lb>
over the Shop Counter as if he wanted to take something he<lb></lb>
Communicated the same to Mr. Woodcock who was also of the same<lb></lb>
Opinion. That on the said Persons going out he Bolled one<lb></lb>
door and shut the other door to which fastens with a<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2950-1">Spring Bolt</rs>
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but which well fly open by being pushed very hard<lb></lb>
That after the above person was gone he went into the Parlour<lb></lb>
again and had not been there more than Minutes when he imagined<lb></lb>
he heard a noise as if some person was going up Stairs. whereupon<lb></lb>
Mr. Woodcock looking into the Shop a Saw a Person looking<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
through the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Glass door of the Shop when Informant got up<lb></lb>
to go into the Shop and saw the prisoner now here present<lb></lb>
and who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2950-2">John Spence</rs>
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with a Canister now also<lb></lb>
here<del>present</del>
produced containing Five pounds and Eleven Ounces weight of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2231">Green<lb></lb>
Tea</rs>
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in his Arons. That Informant ran into the Street and secured<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2950-3">John Spence</rs>
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at the distance of about two Yards from<lb></lb>
his Shop door with the Canister and Tea Contained therein as <lb></lb>
abovementioned.</p>
<p n="2951">Taken and Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2232">Shadwell</rs>
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in the said County the day and year<lb></lb>
first above written before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2951-1">Silvs Hopping</rs>
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<p n="2952"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2952-1">P Greene</rs>
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