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<p n="469"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo408">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n469-1">John Horton</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n469-2">Lawrence Pountney</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Land in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo409">City of London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ109">Merchant</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n469-3">James Portis</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n469-4">David Prothers</rs>
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taken before me this 7th. day of<lb></lb>
February 1781</p>
<p n="470">Who being upon Oath says and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-1">John Horton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself says that about 8 o Clock on Saturday Night last a<lb></lb>
Warehouse belonging to this Informant adjoining to a Dwelling house<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-2">as Lawrence</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-3">Pountney Lane</rs>
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was broke open and a Quantity of<lb></lb>
Indigo stolen therefrom Says that from a Sample or small<lb></lb>
Quantity of Indigo which he preserved from the other Indigo stolen<lb></lb>
as aforesaid, which he hath this day compared with a Quantity<lb></lb>
of Indigo now produced by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-4">James Portis</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-5">David Prothers</rs>
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<lb></lb>
as well as from a knowledge of the Indigo when it was stolen he<lb></lb>
doth verily believe the said Indigo so produced by them is his property, and<lb></lb>
was stolen out of his Warehouse as aforesaid The said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-6">James Portis</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself says, that on Wednesday last a person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-7">William Foriester</rs>
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came to this Informants house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo410">White Lyon Street Norton Falgate</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and offered a Quantity of Indigo now produced to him to Sell The<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-8">David Prothers</rs>
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for himself says that he apprehended the said William<lb></lb>
Foriester at the house of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-9">James Portis</rs>
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, and found in his Possession<lb></lb>
the said Indigo of about £50 weight and further says that he<lb></lb>
afterwards searched the house of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-10">William Foriester</rs>
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in a<lb></lb>
Court in St. Johns Lane <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo411">Smithfield</rs>
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on Wednesday last and there<lb></lb>
found a Quantity of the same kind of Indigo now Produced And<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n470-11">John Horton</rs>
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for himself further says that he doth verily believe the<lb></lb>
said last mentioned Quantity of Indigo produced by the said David<lb></lb>
Prothers to be his Property and part of the Indigo stolen from him<lb></lb>
as aforesaid</p>
<p n="471">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15092_date24">7th: day of Febry. 1781</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
H Addington</p>
<p n="472"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n472-1">Jno Horton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n472-2">James Portis</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n472-3">David Prothers</rs>
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