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<p n="7"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15084_geo6">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n7-1">Joseph Grey</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15084_date3">6th. day of January 1773</rs>
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<p n="8">Who being upon Oath says that about a Month or 6 Weeks ago<lb></lb>
as he was walking in Company with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n8-1">Robert Armstrong</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n8-11">George<lb></lb>
Armstrong</rs>
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they told him that they had broke open the East India<lb></lb>
Companys<obscured></obscured>
Lane Street and stolen a Quantity of<lb></lb>
Tea some time ago which they had disposed of, that this<lb></lb>
Informant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n8-4">Robert Armstrong</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n8-5">George Armstrong</rs>
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<lb></lb>
afterwards went through <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15084_geo7">Leadenhall Market</rs>
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where this<lb></lb>
Informant shewe'd them which were the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15084_geo8">East India Company's</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Warehouses there, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n8-6">Robert Armstrong</rs>
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and George<lb></lb>
Armstrong paid they would<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
do the said Warehouse in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15084_geo9">Leadenhall Market</rs>
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& would give this Informant a Share the<lb></lb>
same as if he was with them by which this Informant verily<lb></lb>
believes they meant to break open the said Ware house, that<lb></lb>
on Thursday the 31st. of December last this Informant seeing<lb></lb>
by an Advertisement in the Newspaper that the said Ware<lb></lb>
house had been broke open and a great Quantity of Silk<lb></lb>
Handkerchiefs stolen went to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n8-8">George Armstrong</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
told this Informant that the said Warehouse war done & that<lb></lb>
they would make him a handsome present but that they were<lb></lb>
obliged to his still for a while, that the next day the 1st. of<lb></lb>
January this Informant was in Company with the said George<lb></lb>
Armstrong and<del>Robert</del>
with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n8-9">William Cottrel</rs>
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when they told this<lb></lb>
Informant they intended to give him three pieces of Handkerchief<lb></lb>
a piece and they said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n8-10">William Cottrel</rs>
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told him that George</p>
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