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<p n="1013"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15089_geo744">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1013-1">Richard Ward</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15089_date94">5th. day of November 1778</rs>
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<p n="1014">Who being upon Oath says that last Friday about 10 o' Clock in the<lb></lb>
Forenoon he went to the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-1">John Hartley</rs>
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now present in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15089_geo745">Maire<lb></lb>
Court</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15089_geo746">Southwark</rs>
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where he found <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-2">James Beane</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-3">Lambert Smith</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-4">John Hartley</rs>
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now present as also <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-5">Daniel East</rs>
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in Company together some<lb></lb>
of whom were playing it Cards, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-6">James Beane</rs>
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asked this<lb></lb>
informant if he would buy some Watches to which this Informant assaul-<lb></lb>
ting the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-7">James Beane</rs>
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and this Informant went into a Room<lb></lb>
up <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of stairs where the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-8">James Beane</rs>
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showed this<lb></lb>
Informant a Number of Silver Watches in a Hot Box, that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-9">James Beane</rs>
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and this Informant bargained for twenty Shillings a piece <lb></lb>
for the said Watches and to the best of this Informant recollection<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-10">Daniel East</rs>
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came into the Room Whilst they were bargaining<lb></lb>
that this Informant went home for Money and in about three hours<lb></lb>
returned to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-11">John Hartley</rs>
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's House where he found the said James<lb></lb>
Bean <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-13">John Hartley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-14">Daniel East</rs>
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& Lambert Smith as also me <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-291">Henry<lb></lb>
Sterne</rs>
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, and a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15089_occ379">Jew</rs>
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whose Name this Informant does not know and<lb></lb>
a Woman or two, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-16">James Beane</rs>
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and this Informant went<lb></lb>
upstairs into the said Room where the Watches were and the said Henry<lb></lb>
Sterne immediately followed them at the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-18">James Beane</rs>
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there<lb></lb>
delivered to this Informant forty one Silver Watches and this<lb></lb>
Informant paid the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-19">James Beane</rs>
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thirty six pounds in <lb></lb>
Money that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-20">Henry Sterne</rs>
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was present being the Transaction<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-21">John Hartley</rs>
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Lambert Smith and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n1014-23">Daniel East</rs>
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were<lb></lb>
present part of the Time and were well acquainted with the Transaction<lb></lb>
that after the Affair of the Watches was finished the said James<lb></lb>
bean produced a Number of Gold Rings and Gold Barest Buckles<lb></lb>
for which this Informant agreed to give him as much as would</p>
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