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<p n="350"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo284">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to wit.}</note>
<lb></lb>
THE Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n350-1">Hubbard Abbott</rs>
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a Lodger at Mrs. Nightingale<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo285">Ratcliff Highway</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo286">Shadwell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ104">Butcher</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="351"> Taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date76">23d Day of February 1785</rs>
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before us Two<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ105">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="352"> Who being upon Oath Saith that, about Three Weeks ago <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n352-1">Benjamin Stokes</rs>
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<del>and</del>
<lb></lb>
a prisoner now here present and another person whom this<del>Deponent</del>
<lb></lb>
Informant does not know came to him about Twelve OClock<lb></lb>
he being then at the house of Mrs. Nightingale abovementioned and<lb></lb>
asked him if he knew where they could Kill a Heifer. who<lb></lb>
told them he thought they might Kill it Either at Mr Kenne<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
or Mr Clarks this informants mar<obscured></obscured>
whereupon he went to<lb></lb>
Mr Clarks and asked him if they might Kill a Heifer who<lb></lb>
Consenting to Heifer being Killed in his Sloughter house<lb></lb>
he went back and acquainted the said Stokes and the other<lb></lb>
person therewith when they told Informant they would<lb></lb>
go and fetch it, That after staying at Mrs. Nightingales<lb></lb>
about half an hour they went away and returned about<lb></lb>
Dush. with Two Bullocks, and called on him by appointment<lb></lb>
at Mrs. Nightingales where he was waiting for them. That<lb></lb>
he then went to Mr Clarks got the Key of the Slaughter<lb></lb>
house and with the Assistance the said Stokes and the other person drove them up Shakespears Walk<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
into the Staughter<lb></lb>
house of the said Mr Clark which is at the back of his house<lb></lb>
facing <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo287">Shakespears Walk</rs>
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, and the next morning Killed<lb></lb>
one of them. the Hide of which is now here produced.<lb></lb>
Lastly saith that the Ewe Bullock was the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Morning<lb></lb>
after Claimed by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n352-3">Francis Butler</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n352-4">John Rogers</rs>
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two of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ106">Servants</rs>
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of<del>the said</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n352-5">Peter Leferce</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ107">Esqr</rs>
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. and delivered to them<lb></lb>
by the Consent of his<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Master the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n352-6">Thomas Clark</rs>
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</p>
<p n="353">Sworn<lb></lb>
The <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date77">23 Feb 1785</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Before us</p>
<p n="354"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n354-1">John Staples</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n354-2">Robt. Smith</rs>
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</p>
<p n="355"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n355-1">Habbard Abbott</rs>
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