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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2874-1">Martha Johnson</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2874-2">William Cox</rs>
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taken on Oath the seventh day of<lb></lb>
September 1784 before me one of his Majesty <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ694">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1961">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="2875">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2875-1">Martha Johnson</rs>
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on her Oath saith that<lb></lb>
on the Thirty first day of August last<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
about Eight OClock<lb></lb>
in the Evening there was feloniously Stolen from her Appartments<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1962">Wood street</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Mathew <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1963">Bethnal Green</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1964">County of Middlesex</rs>
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a Quantity of Yellow Bengall<lb></lb>
Raw skilk on Eighteen Robbins the property of George<lb></lb>
Court auld a Master Silk Thorwster And that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Eighteen Robbins with silk on them now produced by<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2875-2">George Brown</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ695">Head borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1965">Bethnal Green</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
is the same that was Stolen from her Appartments as<lb></lb>
aforesaid</p>
<p n="2876">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2876-1">William Cox</rs>
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on his Oath Saith that<lb></lb>
on the Thirty First day of August last about Eight o'Clock in<lb></lb>
the Evening he then being in a field called <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1966">Hare street field</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said Parish of Saint Mathew <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1967">Bethnal Green</rs>
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he heard<lb></lb>
the call of Stepp thief<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he ran towards the place<lb></lb>
and there saw <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2876-2">Samuel Richards</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ696">Prisoner</rs>
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now under<lb></lb>
Examination Running along in the same Field and<lb></lb>
saw him throw away a Sindle now produced by<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2876-3">George Brown</rs>
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a Peace Officer And this Informant<lb></lb>
Saith he immediately Ran up to him and took him<lb></lb>
and delivered him to the above mentioned <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2876-4">George<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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the Peace Officer</p>
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Wilmot</rs>
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<p n="2878">The Mark of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2878-1">Marsha<lb></lb>
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Johnson</rs>
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The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2878-2">William Cox</rs>
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