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<p n="1005"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo979">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.}</note>
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<p n="1006">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1006-1">Mary Brookson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1006-2">George Brookson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo980">Tash Street</rs>
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Lane</rs>
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taken upon Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1006-3">Wm<lb></lb>
Blackborow</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ400">Esqr</rs>
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. One of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ401">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date166">25th. day of March 1786</rs>
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<p n="1007">This Informant upon her Oath saith that on Thursday<lb></lb>
last the Twenty third day of March instant at about the hour<lb></lb>
of Eight of the Clock in the Evening she being then in Company<lb></lb>
with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1007-1">Sarah Scott</rs>
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. She saw Two Men at the<del>at the</del>
Door<lb></lb>
of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1007-2">Thomas Baker</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo983">Tash Street</rs>
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one of<lb></lb>
which said Men is the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1007-3">Thomas Tanner</rs>
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this Informts.<lb></lb>
then went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo985">No 14</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo986">Tash Street</rs>
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aforesaid where she lives<lb></lb>
but her Husband not being at Home she and the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1007-4">Sarah Scott</rs>
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returned back again when she a second time<lb></lb>
Saw the prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1007-5">Thomas Tanner</rs>
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and the other Man at the<lb></lb>
door aforesaid The other Man then opened the door and went<lb></lb>
into the House and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1007-26">Thos. Tanner</rs>
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Stood leaning against<lb></lb>
the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
side of the door This Informant well know the<lb></lb>
PrisonerTanner to be a person of bad Character having<lb></lb>
known him from a Child and Immediately Suspected<lb></lb>
that they were Robbing the House upon which this Informt.<lb></lb>
went round to the Shop door in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo987">Grays Inn Lane</rs>
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and told<lb></lb>
Mr. Bakers Sister who was then in the Shop with two Men<lb></lb>
buying some Meat that she this Informt. thought the<lb></lb>
House was being robbed backwards One of the two Men who was<lb></lb>
then in the Shop immediately Ran out and the other<lb></lb>
Stopt about three or four Minutes and then went away<lb></lb>
likewise Mr. Bakers Sister then Missed a Basket and<lb></lb>
some Linnen which<del>was</del>
said Basket and a Cloth was<lb></lb>
found in Tash Court and brought back</p>
<p n="1008">Taken & Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
Day and Year first above<lb></lb>
Written}</p>
<p n="1009">W Blackborow</p>
<p n="1010">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n1010-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Brookson</rs>
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Mark</p>
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