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<p n="1373"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo858">Middlesex</rs>
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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1373-1">Christopher Crook</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo859">Surrey</rs>
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Street in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo860">the Strand</rs>
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Linen Draper and Fletch well<lb></lb>
Bowman Servant to Mr Moulds Pawn broker at<lb></lb>
the back of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo861">Saint Clements Church</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
the <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1373-2">William Addington</rs>
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Esquire this 26th. Day<lb></lb>
of August 1789</p>
<p n="1374">Who being severally upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1374-1">Christopher<lb></lb>
Crook</rs>
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for himself says, that about the beginning of this present<lb></lb>
Month of August he this Informant missed a piece of Printed<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ267">Callico in this Shop</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo862">York Street, Covent Garden</rs>
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that about<lb></lb>
Wednesday or Thursday last, Informant received intelligence<lb></lb>
that the Piece of Callico, which he had so missed was in the<lb></lb>
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Window of a pawn brokers Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo863">Wych Street</rs>
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, that he<lb></lb>
this Informant and his Partner Mr: Francis, went immediately<lb></lb>
to said Pawn brokers House, where they saw said Callico and<lb></lb>
Claim'd it as their property, and upon Enquiring of the pawn broker<lb></lb>
how he came by the same, he was answered, that he (the pawn broker)<lb></lb>
had on the Sixth Instant purchased the said Callico<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of Two Women<lb></lb>
calling themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1374-2">Ann Cave</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1374-3">Sarah Parsons</rs>
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for Two Guineas<lb></lb>
and an half, which said Two Women, as he this Informant has<lb></lb>
been told and believes to be true, are now in prison charged<lb></lb>
with another Felonyand the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1374-4">Fletchwell Bowman</rs>
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for himself saith, that on the Sixth Day of August Instant,<lb></lb>
Two Women calling themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1374-5">Ann Cave</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1374-6">Sarah Parsons</rs>
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came to the Shop of Mr. Moulds Pawn broker in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo864">Wych Street</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
offerred a piece of printed Callico for sale, which this Informant<lb></lb>
purchased of them, for Two Guineas and on half, that having<lb></lb>
since been informed that the said Callico was stolen in the Shop<lb></lb>
of Messr Francis and Crook Linen drapers in youth street and that the<lb></lb>
Two Women of whom he purchased the same were under<lb></lb>
Confinement for some other offence, he on Monday last went to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo865">New prison</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo866">Clerkenwell</rs>
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to be satisfied of the truth<lb></lb>
thereof, when and where he saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1374-7">Ann Cave</rs>
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and Sarah</p>
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