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<p n="3004"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2075">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3004-1">Simon Shepherd</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3004-2">William Warren</rs>
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taken before me this 10th. day of September 1784</p>
<p n="3005">Who being upon Oath say<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-1">Simon Shepherd</rs>
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for himself says that he has lodged at <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-2">William Litchfield</rs>
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's in Down<lb></lb>
Street for some time past, that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-3">Joseph Baker</rs>
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now present has also<lb></lb>
lodged in the Same Room with him, that early on Wednesday Morning last<lb></lb>
he missed a key of his Box which key he is certain he had in his Pocket<lb></lb>
about 7 or 8 o'Clock the Evening before, that in the Said Box was a<lb></lb>
Leathern Bag now produced containing forty two Guineas and a half<lb></lb>
in Gold two Crown Pieces 6 half Crown Pieces and some other Silver<lb></lb>
this Informant's property, And the said<del>Jr</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-4">William Warren</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
says that having heard of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-5">Simon Shepherd</rs>
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's being robbed and<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-6">Joseph Baker</rs>
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was suspected to have committed the Robbery<lb></lb>
he this Morning apprehended the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-7">Joseph Baker</rs>
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and on searching<lb></lb>
him found the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-8">Leathern Purse</rs>
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nor produced in the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-9">Joseph<lb></lb>
Baker</rs>
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's Pocket and also found in his Pockets forty two Guineas and<lb></lb>
a half in Gold six half Crown Pieces two Crown Pieces and some<lb></lb>
other Silver now produced, And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-10">Simon Shepherd</rs>
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further Says<lb></lb>
that the said Purse & Money was stolen out of his Box and he verily<lb></lb>
believes that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3005-11">Joseph Baker</rs>
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stole the same</p>
<p n="3006">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
September 10th. 1784}</p>
<p n="3007">Wm<obscured></obscured>
ton</p>
<p n="3008">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3008-1">Simon<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Shepherd</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="3009">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3009-1">William<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Warren</rs>
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Mark</p>
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