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<p n="451"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo387">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n451-1">Rebecca Richards</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ135">wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n451-2">John Richards</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n451-3">Simon Wilson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n451-4">Samuel Partridge</rs>
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, taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date101">1st. day<lb></lb>
of February 1785</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="452">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n452-1">Rebecca Richards</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that about ½ past 2 o'Clock this afternoon she saw a person<lb></lb>
now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n452-2">Francis Scott</rs>
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in her passage<lb></lb>
with a Bundle under his Coat that Informant asked him what<lb></lb>
he had got when he ran away and dropped a Coat and shirt<lb></lb>
no produced when Informant called out "Stop Thief" and a<lb></lb>
person secured said Scott, And further says that a Gown, a Shawl<lb></lb>
a Waiscoat, a Skirt and a Coat now produced are the property of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n452-3">John Richards</rs>
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and were Stolen, And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n452-4">Simon Wilson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that he saw said Scott come out of said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n452-5">John Richards</rs>
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's<lb></lb>
House and saw him drop a Coat, a Skirt and a Waistcoat now<lb></lb>
produced that on said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n452-6">Rebecca Richards</rs>
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calling "Stop Thief"<lb></lb>
he secured said Scott. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n452-7">Samuel Partridge</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
he searched said Scott and in his Coat found a Shawl now<lb></lb>
produced.</p>
<p n="453">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
1st. day of February 1785}</p>
<p n="454">W Addington</p>
<p n="455"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n455-1">Rebecca Richards</rs>
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<p n="456"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n456-1">Si: Wilson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n456-2">Samuel Partridge</rs>
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