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<p n="959"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London to wit</note>
The joint and several Informations of Joseph<lb></lb>
Collins, of Fell Street No 1, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo961">Wood Street</rs>
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London, Shoe<lb></lb>
Maker and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n959-2">James Somers</rs>
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Norman, aged about twelve<lb></lb>
Years, who lives at No 1 in Fell Street aforesaid, and<lb></lb>
who hath been examined touching the Nature of an<lb></lb>
OathWho being on Oath severally say And<lb></lb>
First the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n959-3">Joseph Collins</rs>
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for himself saith, that on<lb></lb>
the thirteenth day of September Instant, about eleven<lb></lb>
O Clock in the Morning, he went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo962">Golden Lane</rs>
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having<lb></lb>
First locked the door of his Apartment, and put the<lb></lb>
Key in his PocketSays, that he went into a Public<lb></lb>
House the coiner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo963">Beech Lane</rs>
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where the Prisoner<lb></lb>
wasInformant and the Prisoner went together<lb></lb>
to the Apartment of the Former, in order to bargain<lb></lb>
about a hat that was in pawn, and in Presence of<lb></lb>
the Prisoner, Informant took a Guinea out of the<lb></lb>
Box now produced, and there remained three guineas<lb></lb>
in the Boxthen Informant and the Prisoner went<lb></lb>
back to the same Publick House, and Informant<lb></lb>
on a sudden missed the key of his Apartment out<lb></lb>
of his Pocket and he missed the three Guineas one of the BoxAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n959-4">James Somers</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Norman for himself saith, that between Five and<lb></lb>
six O'Clock of the said thirteenth day of September<lb></lb>
Instant in the Afternoon he was going by the door of the Apartment<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n959-5">Joseph Collins</rs>
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, and saw the Prisoner<lb></lb>
in the ApartmentInformant asked him what he<lb></lb>
did there<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Prisoner said, that Collins sent<lb></lb>
him for a pair of old Shoes, and was waiting at<lb></lb>
the Publick House at the Cornerthe Prisoner<lb></lb>
bid Informant go of his Errand</p>
<p n="960">Taken and Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo964">Guildhall</rs>
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<lb></lb>
London the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15092_date98">21st Day of September<lb></lb>
1781</rs>
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. before me}</p>
<p n="961"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n961-1">John Hart</rs>
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<p n="962"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n962-1">Joseph Collins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Jas. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n962-2">Somers Norman</rs>
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