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<p n="1288"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo644">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1288-1">John Brand</rs>
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a <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo645">Hackney</rs>
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Coachman No. 714<lb></lb>
Servant in that Capacity to Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1288-2">Richard Atkinson</rs>
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Coach master<lb></lb>
taken upon Oath this 21st Day of May 1768 before me one of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ180">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County.</p>
<p n="1289">This Informant being upon his Oath as aforesaid Saith That last Night being Friday<lb></lb>
night about ½ past 11 he Came home with the Coach he had been driving, and unharnessed<lb></lb>
his Horses, & hung up the Harness on a hook a little way within the Stable Door, and<lb></lb>
when he had so done he locked the Stable Door & went home to his Lodgings.- On the<lb></lb>
Morrow Morning being Saturday this Day the 21st May about 7 o'Clock he went again<lb></lb>
into the Stable to feed & dress his Masters Horses, and after having cleaned & Washed<lb></lb>
the Coach he was Employed to drive. He then went to look for his Harness in order<lb></lb>
to Clean them likewise, and on his Searching the Hook on Which he had hang them<lb></lb>
the Night before in the Stabb he did not find them, As they had been taken away, Then he<lb></lb>
enquired of all his fellow Servants (<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1289-1">Job Men</rs>
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) in the yard, to be informed whether<lb></lb>
they knew what was become of his Harness, They All replied to the Effect that they<lb></lb>
had none of them seen any thing of the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ181">Harness.</rs>
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and on his further enquiry after<lb></lb>
his Harness he was told by one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1289-2">George Attwood</rs>
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who is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ182">Coachman</rs>
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to the said Mr<lb></lb>
Atkinson that the saw the Watchman stop a Man last Night or Early this Morning<lb></lb>
with a pair of Harness on his back, Upon which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1289-3">John Brand</rs>
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acquainted<lb></lb>
his Mistress Mrs. Atkinson with it, who ordered him to go to the Watchhouse to fee<lb></lb>
if the harness were there and the Man in Custody, which he accordingly did, And<lb></lb>
he saw the harness he had left in the said Watchhouse and also the Man who<lb></lb>
was apprehended by the Watchman with the said Harness upon his Back, and<lb></lb>
the said Harness being now produced before me, The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1289-4">John Brand</rs>
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positively and<lb></lb>
upon his Oath declares it to be the very identical Harness which he had so less<lb></lb>
& which belongs to his said Master Mr Atkinson and which was feloniously stole<lb></lb>
out of the said Stable.</p>
<p n="1290">Sworn before me the 21st day of<lb></lb>
May 1768.<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1290-1">John Lane</rs>
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<p n="1291"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1291-1">John Brand</rs>
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