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<p n="1284"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo640">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit{</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1284-1">Lawrence Abell</rs>
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one of the Watchmen<lb></lb>
belonging to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo641">Parish of St Mary</rs>
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le bone in the said County<lb></lb>
taken upon Oath before me one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ179">Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace</rs>
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in & for the said County this 21st. May 1768</p>
<p n="1285">This Informant being upon his Oath saith that last Night or Early this Morning<lb></lb>
being Saturday the 21st May he Met a Man in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo642">Oxford Road</rs>
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at the End of Bolsover<lb></lb>
Street Who had a pair of Harness upon his back He accordingly stopt him with<lb></lb>
the Harness on his back, and on Lawrence Abells asking him where he was going wth<lb></lb>
the Harness The Man answer'd into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo643">Bishopgate Street</rs>
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, Upon which the Watchman<lb></lb>
said he woud not Let him go Until he had given an Accot. of himself to the Constable<lb></lb>
of the night & so he took him to the Watch house telling him that if he had Come<lb></lb>
honestly by the harness he shou'd be set at Liberty, & told him it was his Duty to Stop<lb></lb>
Suspicious persons at Unseasonable Hours in the Night That in the way to the<lb></lb>
Watch house the Man who had the Harness on his back, threw them off & attempted<lb></lb>
to ran away offering him Beer, & other gratuity's to bribe him to let him Escape which<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1285-1">Lawrence Abell</rs>
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refused, but brought him into the Watchhouse, And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1285-2">Lawrence<lb></lb>
Abell</rs>
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saw possitively declareth upon his Oath & Saith That he stopt the said Man<lb></lb>
upon a Suspicion he had Stole the said Harness and Still declareth and Saith<lb></lb>
that he Suspects the said Man did actually Steal the said Harness.</p>
<p n="1286">Sworn before me the 21st Day of<lb></lb>
May 1768<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1286-1">John Lane</rs>
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<p n="1287"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1287-1">Law Abell</rs>
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