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<p n="459"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo315">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n459-1">John Jones</rs>
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one of the Watchmen of the Parish<lb></lb>
of Saint G Anna <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo316">Middlesex</rs>
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. Taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date94">Twenty second day of<lb></lb>
January 1787</rs>
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before us two of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ102">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
and for the said County.</p>
<p n="460">Who being upon Oath Saith that about a Quarter past nine on Saturday<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
night<lb></lb>
last. a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n460-1">John Paxton</rs>
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passed him<lb></lb>
near the Sign of the Britannia and <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo317">Limehouse</rs>
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Cut Ash Bridge going<lb></lb>
towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo318">Ron Lane</rs>
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<del>and directly followed hour</del>
That in about five<lb></lb>
Minutes after another man with a large Bag came and throwed the said<lb></lb>
Bay down on the said Bridge and ran away. That Informant called to him to<lb></lb>
Stop but that he did not, That he went and took up said Bay and<lb></lb>
found it Con<obscured></obscured>
Sacred Yarn which Yarn has been claimed by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n460-2">Peter<lb></lb>
Young</rs>
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whose foremises are near. Fast her Saith that both Paxton and<lb></lb>
the other man came along the Towing Path of the said Cut and that<lb></lb>
Paxton went over the said Bridge towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo319">Rose Lane</rs>
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and that the other<lb></lb>
person after he had so thrown down the Bag as aforesaid returned back<lb></lb>
the way he came That Paxton came back to the said Bridge without<lb></lb>
saying a Word to Informant Further Saith that on his discovering<lb></lb>
a Person standing at the Corner of the Wall he went to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<del>Examinant</del>
who<lb></lb>
he was when he went away but on his calling to him he came back<lb></lb>
when Informant charged him with knowing and having been Concerned<lb></lb>
with taking the said<del>Bag</del>
who at first denied it but afterwards Confessed<lb></lb>
that Hicks was Concerned in Stealing the said Yarn from their Master</p>
<p n="461">Taken and Sworn the<lb></lb>
day and Year first above<lb></lb>
written before}</p>
<p n="462"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n462-1">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n462-2">Peter Green</rs>
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C</p>
<p n="463"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n463-1">John Jones</rs>
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