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The Informations of
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Esquire this 26th. Day
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of August 1789
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Who being severally upon Oath say, and first the said
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for himself says, that about the beginning of this present
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Month of August he this Informant missed a piece of Printed
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that about
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Wednesday or Thursday last, Informant received intelligence
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that the Piece of Callico, which he had so missed was in the
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Window of a pawn brokers Shop in
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, that he
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this Informant and his Partner Mr: Francis, went immediately
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to said Pawn brokers House, where they saw said Callico and
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Claim'd it as their property, and upon Enquiring of the pawn broker
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how he came by the same, he was answered, that he (the pawn broker)
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had on the Sixth Instant purchased the said Callico
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for Two Guineas
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and an half, which said Two Women, as he this Informant has
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been told and believes to be true, are now in prison charged
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with another Felonyand the said
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for himself saith, that on the Sixth Day of August Instant,
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came to the Shop of Mr. Moulds Pawn broker in
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and
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offerred a piece of printed Callico for sale, which this Informant
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purchased of them, for Two Guineas and on half, that having
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since been informed that the said Callico was stolen in the Shop
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of Messr Francis and Crook Linen drapers in youth street and that the
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Two Women of whom he purchased the same were under
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Confinement for some other offence, he on Monday last went to the
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to be satisfied of the truth
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thereof, when and where he saw the said
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