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<p n="2938"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2015">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2938-1">Sarah Armstrong</rs>
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Didear</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2938-3">John Colling</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken this 31st. day of August 1784</p>
<p n="2939">Who being on their Oaths say and First the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2939-1">Sarah<lb></lb>
Armstrong</rs>
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for hereself Saith that she lives at No. 66 in<lb></lb>
Lambert Street Goodmans Feilds that this Evening there<lb></lb>
were stolen from out of the yard belonging to the said<lb></lb>
House Two Table Cloths that she<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
heard<lb></lb>
come Person go along <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2016">the Passage</rs>
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that she went out<lb></lb>
and cryed Stop theif That in about a Quarter of an<lb></lb>
Hour the person now present was brought to this<lb></lb>
Informants House with the two Table Cloths now<lb></lb>
produced which are the same that were so stolen out<lb></lb>
of her Yard as aforesaid and are the property of one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2939-2">William Sheppard</rs>
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. Intrusted with her to washs<lb></lb>
The said William Dedear<del>from</del>
for himself saith that he saw<lb></lb>
the<del>said</del>
said Person now present,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
who<lb></lb>
calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2939-3">William Allen</rs>
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Maclachlan<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
between<lb></lb>
Seven and Eight o' Clock this Evening come out<lb></lb>
of the said Sarah Armstrongs House that on hearing<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2939-4">Sarah Armstrong</rs>
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Say that he has got<lb></lb>
something and cry out Stop theif he this Informant<lb></lb>
pursued the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2939-5">William Allen</rs>
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Mac<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Lachlan<lb></lb>
into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2017">Rupert Street</rs>
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and there saw him drop a Bundle<lb></lb>
and Run off, which Bundle he this Informant<lb></lb>
Piched up and which appeared to be the Two<lb></lb>
Table Cloths now produced.</p>
<p n="2940">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2940-1">John Colling</rs>
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for himslf saith that<lb></lb>
being in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2018">Buckle Street White Chapel</rs>
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at the time<lb></lb>
aforesaid<del>and</del>
hearing a Cry of Stop theif &<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
seeing<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2940-2">William Allen</rs>
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Machachlan running<lb></lb>
along he this Informant Stopped him and took<lb></lb>
him to the House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2940-3">Sarah Armstrong</rs>
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<lb></lb>
where his Person was particularized by the aforesaid<lb></lb>
William Dedear.</p>
<p n="2941">Sworn before me the 31st.<lb></lb>
day of August 1784}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2941-1">John Staples</rs>
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<p n="2942"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2942-1">Sarah Armstrong</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ720">Watn</rs>
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. Dee dear<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2942-2">John Collinbourn</rs>
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