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<p n="1420"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo912">Middlesex</rs>
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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1420-1">George Clay</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo913">Princes<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo914">Rotherhithe</rs>
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in the County of Surry Timber<lb></lb>
Merchant and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1420-2">Thomas Cock</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo915">Scotland<lb></lb>
Yard Westminster</rs>
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Tide Warfinger taken<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1420-3">William Addington</rs>
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Esquire<lb></lb>
this 8th: Day of September 1789</p>
<p n="1421">Who being Severally upon Oath say, and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1421-1">George Clay</rs>
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for himself saith, that about the Sixth<lb></lb>
day of July<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
last, he this Informant received a<lb></lb>
Quantity of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Fir Timber from on Board the Owan,<lb></lb>
then lately arrived in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo916">River Thames</rs>
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from the part of<lb></lb>
Memell in Prusiathat the said Timber when brought<lb></lb>
from said Ship was conveyed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo917">Hanover Hole</rs>
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Rother hithe,<lb></lb>
and that on Wednesday Night the Eight day of the same<lb></lb>
Month of July, between the Hours of Seven and Eight<lb></lb>
he, this Informant, saw the said Timber in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo918">Hanover Hole</rs>
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<lb></lb>
aforesaidthat the same Night or early on Thursday<lb></lb>
Morning, three pieces of the said Timber were cut away<lb></lb>
and stolen from one of the Floats;And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1421-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Cock</rs>
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for himself saith, that on Thursday the Ninth Day of<lb></lb>
July last about the Hour of Two in the Morning, that he saw<lb></lb>
three pieces of Fir Timber afloat in the Dock belonging to<lb></lb>
Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1421-3">Leonard Phillipps</rs>
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of Scotland Yard Lighterman, and<lb></lb>
Warfinger, that upon looking round, he saw a person now<lb></lb>
present, who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1421-4">Thomas Morgan</rs>
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, of whom<lb></lb>
he asked to whom such Timber belonged, who replied it matter'd<lb></lb>
not to whom said Time<obscured></obscured>
belonged, that he brought it three and<lb></lb>
that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
some person belonging to the Wharf had agreed<lb></lb>
to draw it away that Morning that he asked said<lb></lb>
Morgan, if he had brought a Ticket or Note with<lb></lb>
said Timber who answered No, that there was no Occasion<lb></lb>
as it was to be removed so soon, that said Morgan after taking</p>
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