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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n946-1">Charles Wood</rs>
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Servant to<lb></lb>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo952">Thames Street</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
Wharfinger and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n946-3">Thomas Berry</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo953">Shows Fields</rs>
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in the County of Surry Kings <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ334">Watchman</rs>
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Taken in Writing and upon Oath before<lb></lb>
me <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n946-4">Robert Peckham</rs>
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Esquare one of the<lb></lb>
Aldermen of the said City this<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15092_date95"> 25th July 1781</rs>
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<p n="947">Who on their Oaths say that being upon their Watch upon<lb></lb>
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Rupy <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo955">Thames Street</rs>
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on the seventeenth of July Instant<lb></lb>
between the hours of one and two o'Clock in the Morning and<lb></lb>
upon examinig the Locks of Warehouses there discovered that of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n947-1">Thomas Pierson</rs>
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to have been forced open That<lb></lb>
they thereupon went into the Warehouse and in the Cellar<lb></lb>
saw the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ335">Prisoner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n947-2">Edward Bond</rs>
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who immediately upon their<lb></lb>
coming in Undeavoured to conceal himself behind a Cask that<lb></lb>
stood in the Cellar where<del>upon that,</del>
they went<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and<lb></lb>
secured him That upon Informants asking the Prisoner<lb></lb>
his Business there he told them that he had been hired<lb></lb>
by a Man whose Name he did not knew to cary some<lb></lb>
bundles which were in the Cellar to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Rother<obscured></obscured>
the<lb></lb>
that near the Prisoner stood two Bundles containing<lb></lb>
77 Pounds weight of Sugar which appeared to have<lb></lb>
been fresh packed up and taken out of a Cask standing</p>
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