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to wit</note>
The joint and several Information of Arthur<lb></lb>
Downes, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ1">Clerk</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n1-1">John Nixon</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo2">Lawrence Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo3">London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ2">Manchester Warehouseman</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n1-3">Thomas Michael</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n1-4">John<del>Nix</del>
Nickson</rs>
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Who being on Oath severally<lb></lb>
say And First the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n1-6">Arthur Downes</rs>
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For himself saith,<lb></lb>
that Yesterday Afternoon about three O'Clock, he was<lb></lb>
siding at the desk in the Compting House of the said John<lb></lb>
Nickson, and he perceiving a Man whose back was towards<lb></lb>
him go out of the Warehouse with a Parcel under his Arm,<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ4">Informant</rs>
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instantly went out in pursuit of him, but being<lb></lb>
lane he told the other <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ5">Informant</rs>
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Mitchel to Follow<lb></lb>
the Man who was just gone out of the Warehouse with<lb></lb>
some Goods Presently afterwards, the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ6">Informant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mitchel came back with the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ7">Prisoner</rs>
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now under<lb></lb>
Examination <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n1-8">Thomas Ebborne</rs>
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in his Custody, and the<lb></lb>
Piece of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo4">manchester</rs>
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Quilting now produced <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ8">Informant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
verily believes the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ9">Prisoner</rs>
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is the same Person whom he<lb></lb>
saw going out of the Warehouse in manner aforesaid, and<lb></lb>
who, he believes, did Feloniously steal the said Piece of<lb></lb>
Quilting now produced, which is of the Value of Forty<lb></lb>
Shillings, and the Property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n1-9">John Nickson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n1-10">Thomas Mitchel</rs>
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For himself saith, that<lb></lb>
being desired to Follow and apprehend the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ10">Prisoner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n1-11">Thomas Ebborne</rs>
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, he did so, and the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ11">Prisoner</rs>
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had the<lb></lb>
Piece of Quilting now produced in his Possession<lb></lb>
Says, that the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ12">Prisoner</rs>
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when taken street him<obscured></obscured>
up <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ13">Informant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
by the Feels and endeavoured to escape</p>
<p n="2">Taken and sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo5">Guildhall</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo6">London</rs>
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<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15095_date3">3d January 1784</rs>
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before me}</p>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n4-2">Thos Mitchell</rs>
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