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<p n="313"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo209">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n313-1">Mathew Daw</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ45">Coachman</rs>
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to the Honble. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n313-2">Frederic Vane</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo210">Chelsea Hospital</rs>
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taken on Oath before me<lb></lb>
this 18th. day of May 1789.</p>
<p n="314">Who being on Oath says that about half an hour<lb></lb>
past Ten oClock this Morning the Great Coat now produced was<lb></lb>
Stolen from off the box of his Master's Carriage as it stood<lb></lb>
in the Coach-house adjoining to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo211">Chelsea Colledge</rs>
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and upon this<lb></lb>
Informant making known his loss, he was informed that two<lb></lb>
Men had been down the Yard with Asses Carrying Potatoes<lb></lb>
and that it must<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
be one of them that had taken the<lb></lb>
said Coat. Upon receiving such information this Informant<lb></lb>
enquired which way the said men were gone and then pursued<lb></lb>
them that this Informant overlook the prisoner now present<lb></lb>
who Calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n314-1">George Woodland</rs>
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about four hundred Yards<lb></lb>
on the other side <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo212">Battersea Bridge</rs>
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and that said prisoner as<lb></lb>
soon as he saw this Informant, took said Great Coat out of<lb></lb>
a Hamper (which his Ass was Carrying) and threw it over<lb></lb>
a Hedge. That this Informant then took said Prisoner into<lb></lb>
Custody who begged for Mercy and wanted this Informant to<lb></lb>
forgive him And this Informant further saith that the treat<lb></lb>
Coat now produced is the same that was Stolen from the Carriage<lb></lb>
<del>and</del>
as aforesaid and is the property of his Master The Honble<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n314-2">Frederic Vane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ46">Esquire</rs>
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<p n="315">Sworn before me the day<lb></lb>
and Year above written<lb></lb>
Sampn Wright}</p>
<p n="316"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n316-1">Matthew Tom</rs>
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