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<p n="54"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50574_geo33">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n54-1">James Draper</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50574_geo34">Swallow Street</rs>
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Stable Keeper<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n54-2">John Brooks</rs>
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of Kings Street <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50574_occ10">Upholsterer</rs>
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taken before me this 18th.. day of August 1767</p>
<p n="55">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n55-1">James Draper</rs>
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for himself saith that last Saturday<lb></lb>
Senight he let two Horse to wit a Bay Horse and a<lb></lb>
grey one to two Persons recomended by a Person now<lb></lb>
present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n55-2">John Brooks</rs>
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, says that the said Horses<lb></lb>
were hired to go to the three Tuns at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50574_geo35">Uxbridge</rs>
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and return<lb></lb>
the same Night, says that the said Horses were not brought<lb></lb>
home untill the Thursday following at 12 and then by a<lb></lb>
Stranger, says that on Friday last he saw one Spooner at the lodgings<lb></lb>
of the aforesaid Brooks in Kings Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50574_geo36">Carnaby Market</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
acknowledged himself to one of the Persons that hired<lb></lb>
his horses as aforesaid and who haid him two Guineas<lb></lb>
in part of three pounds for their Hire, says that on Wednesday<lb></lb>
last he went to <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50574_occ11">Justice Spinnager</rs>
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in Arg<obscured></obscured>
Buildings and told him he had<lb></lb>
Lott two Horses to two young Men for a day who had not<lb></lb>
returned them, that the next day he found out the aforesaid<lb></lb>
Brooks and took him before the said Justice And this<lb></lb>
Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n55-3">John Brooks</rs>
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for himself saith that last Friday<lb></lb>
Senight one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n55-4">Robert<del>John</del>
Spooner</rs>
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and one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n55-5">John Cooper</rs>
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came to him<lb></lb>
and told him they wanted a Horse the next day he recomended<lb></lb>
them to the aforesaid Mr. Draper who lett them two says that he has<lb></lb>
known the said Spooner who is a Cabinetmaker about twelve<lb></lb>
Months, and known Cooper some time as Spooner's Companion<lb></lb>
only that Cooper is a<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="56">W <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n56-1">James Draper</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50574_n56-2">John Brooks</rs>
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<p n="57">Sworn before me the day<lb></lb>
and year first above writen}</p>
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