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<p n="54"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo96">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n54-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Cosway</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ21">Servant</rs>
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to Mrs Weaver<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo97">the Crown</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo98">Church Court</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo99">the Strand</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ22">Widow</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n54-2">William<lb></lb>
Lackbroke</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo100">Spread Eagle</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo101">the<lb></lb>
Strand</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ23">Victualler</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date14">17th. day of March 1787</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="55">Who being upon Oath severally say and<lb></lb>
first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n55-1">Thomas Cosway</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
Says that about 8 oClock last Night the person<lb></lb>
now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n55-2">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came into Mistresses House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo102">Church Court</rs>
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<lb></lb>
aforesaid and took out of his pocket a quantity of<lb></lb>
Beef and Mutton and the Spoon now produced<lb></lb>
That he gave the said Meat to one<lb></lb>
Bennett who was sitting and drinking in the<lb></lb>
said House That he went to the Bar and<lb></lb>
desired his Mistress to give him a Knife That<lb></lb>
she accordingly gave him a black handled Knife<lb></lb>
That he then went into the Yard and with the<lb></lb>
said Knife out said Spoon and began to scrape<lb></lb>
it That this Informant seeing what he was<lb></lb>
doing observed to a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ24">Maid Servant</rs>
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of said Mrs.<lb></lb>
Weaver who was standing near said Taylor<lb></lb>
That the said Taylor had got a Silver Spoon<lb></lb>
and was cutting it That said Taylor then gave<lb></lb>
said Spoons to this Informant and desired him<lb></lb>
to dump it up and melt it down and then<lb></lb>
return it back to him That he then shewed the<lb></lb>
said Spoon so delivered to him to the Maid Servant<lb></lb>
who advised him to return it to the Prisoner and<lb></lb>
to have nothing to do with it That he then offered<lb></lb>
to return it to the Prisoner but he would not<lb></lb>
receive it That he then by the advice of the said<lb></lb>
Maid Servant throw it on a Shed in the Yard<lb></lb>
That he</p>
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