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The Several Informations of
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the same Place
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in the
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& Hennett & Gibbs taken on their several and Respective Oaths
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this 1st. Day of April 1786 before
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Nicholas Forster
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John Collick
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One of his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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City and Liberty of
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And first the said
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on his Oath Saith that last
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Night the 30th. Inst: between the Hours of seven and eight o'Clock
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(as this Deponent has since been informed) his Parlour in his Dwelling
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House at
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as he has great Reason to believe And One
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large Pier Glass in a Walnutt Free frame, And one large Manchester
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Shiped window Certain, was Cutt down taken and Carried away
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out of the said Room by the said
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and was by
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him Pawnd with the said
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as this Deponent verily believes and had been
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Informed to be True
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on his Oath Saith that he was at the House of the
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said
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aforesaid between the Hours
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of seven and eight o' Clock. That this Deponent at that time saw
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the said
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standing at the Window of the Room from
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whence the Pier Glass and Curtain were Stolen and Carried away
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that this Deponent spoke to him when he was at the Window, but
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did not see him in the Room.
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