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<p n="1315"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo834">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1315-1">Henry Lazarus</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of No. 4 in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo835">Gravel Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo836">Houndsditch</rs>
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Pencil<lb></lb>
Maker taken this 8th. Day of August 1789<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1315-2">Nicholas Bond</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ257">Esquire</rs>
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<p n="1316">Who being upon Oath saith that the Day for selling Black<lb></lb>
Lead at No. 132 in Hetter Lane is the first Monday in<lb></lb>
every Monththat on Tuesday last the Fourth Instant<lb></lb>
being the day next following the last Sale a person now<lb></lb>
present who calls herself Ann Massley, in Company with<lb></lb>
another person also now present, who calls herself Lydia<lb></lb>
Glover, came to this Informants house and offered him<lb></lb>
a Quantity of Black Lead to sell, and which he this<lb></lb>
Informant believes to weigh in the whole upwards of three pounds,<lb></lb>
That upon<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
asking said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1316-1">Ann Massley</rs>
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what she<lb></lb>
would sell it for, she replied a GuineaInformant<lb></lb>
then asked her if she had any more, who answered<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
not now, but that she should have more after the<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
next Mouth, but Informant from the knowledge<lb></lb>
he has of the Value of Black Lead, suspecting that said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1316-2">Ann Massley</rs>
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had not come honestly by said Lead<lb></lb>
from the Situate of the Sum she ask'd for the same<lb></lb>
sent for a Constable to whose Custody he immediately<lb></lb>
gave said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1316-3">Ann Mapley</rs>
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and her Companion Lydia<lb></lb>
Gloverand this Informant further saith that to<lb></lb>
the best of his Judgement the Lead so offered to him<lb></lb>
by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1316-4">Ann Massley</rs>
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and which is now produced<lb></lb>
is worth about the Sum of Four poundsAnd this<lb></lb>
Informant also says that about a Month ago and as he<lb></lb>
believes Yesterday four Weeks, a Man who is a Jew<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and<lb></lb>
believes is<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Dealer and Chapman came to his House in</p>
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