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<p n="3516"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2386">Middlesex</rs>
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THE Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3516-1">George Standfast</rs>
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of No. 2 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2387">Dean Street</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Parish of Saint Olive <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2388">Southwark</rs>
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in the County of Surry<lb></lb>
Gentn.<lb></lb>
Taken this 6th. Day of October 1784 before me,<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ848">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="3517"> Who being upon Oath saith that about Ten O Clock in the Morning of<lb></lb>
Monday the Twenty Seventh day of September last being<lb></lb>
then on Board the Ship Bellmont an Past India Ship<lb></lb>
lying at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2389">Blackwell</rs>
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in the said County he then and<lb></lb>
there discovered one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3517-1">James Lee</rs>
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(a Lumper who had<lb></lb>
been Employed in the unloading of the said Ship.)<lb></lb>
with a Quantity of Salt Petre concealed in the inside<lb></lb>
of his Stockings of<del>his</del>
Both Legs. Whereupon he gave<lb></lb>
Notice to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3517-2">John Bevan</rs>
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the Chief Male then Commanding on Board<lb></lb>
who Caused him to be secured and to be brought before<lb></lb>
me the said Justice. And this Informant lastly<lb></lb>
Saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3517-3">James Lee</rs>
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being now present is<lb></lb>
the same person he so discovered at aforesaid and that<lb></lb>
the Salt Petre now produced is as he verily believes the<lb></lb>
same which was so found concealed as aforesaid and is<lb></lb>
the property of Captain <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3517-4">Robert Preston</rs>
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and others the<lb></lb>
Corners of the said Ship Bellmont.</p>
<p n="3518">Taken and Sworn the<lb></lb>
day and Year first above written<lb></lb>
before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3518-1">P Greene</rs>
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<p n="3519"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3519-1">George Standfast</rs>
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