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<p n="3195"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2398">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3195-1">Thomas Mason</rs>
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taken on Oath<lb></lb>
the Eleventh day of November 1783 before me one of<lb></lb>
his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ907">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2399">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="3196">This Informant or his Oath Saith That he is a Servant who<lb></lb>
attends the Shop of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3196-1">John Shutt</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2400">Holywell street Shoreditch</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ908">Grocer</rs>
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And that on the fifth day of November<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Instant between seven<lb></lb>
and Eight O'Clock in the Evening or about that time he being in the shop<lb></lb>
a person came in and asked for a half penny worth of Spanish Liquid<lb></lb>
Juice and immediately after him, came another person into the Shop<lb></lb>
saying he had better have a penney worth, whilst he <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
was serving<lb></lb>
the first person who came into the Shop, he heard some other person<lb></lb>
come into the Shop and draw of a Parcel which was on a Chest<lb></lb>
in the Shop, There being another Servant in the Shop This Informant<lb></lb>
immediately run out, where he saw the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3196-3">Richard Beard</rs>
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now under Examination<lb></lb>
with the Parcel of Soap now produced carrying the same along<lb></lb>
in the Street, This Informant then run after him and saw<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3196-4">Richard Beard</rs>
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drop the same on the Ground, he then<lb></lb>
immediately seized Beard by the Collar and took him back<lb></lb>
to his Masters shop and his Master sent for a Peace Officer<lb></lb>
and gave charge of him And this Informant further<lb></lb>
Saith that the Soap now produced is the same Soap that<lb></lb>
was stolen out of his Master shop and is the property of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3196-5">John Shutt</rs>
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his Master</p>
<p n="3197">Sworn the 11th. day of<lb></lb>
November 1783 before<lb></lb>
me}</p>
<p n="3198">Wilmot</p>
<p n="3199"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3199-1">Thos Mason</rs>
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