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<p n="406"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo257">Middlesex</rs>
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(to wit)</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n406-1">Thomas Hockley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken and made on Oath before me<lb></lb>
one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ72">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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in and for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo258">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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the 15th- day of<lb></lb>
March 1781.</p>
<p n="407">This Informant saith that at different times<lb></lb>
past there hath been stolen from this Informants<lb></lb>
Premises a Quantity of Iron for the making of<lb></lb>
Horseshoes this Informant property, and this<lb></lb>
Informant further saith that suspecting one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n407-1">John<lb></lb>
Fox</rs>
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who was employed by this Informant as his<lb></lb>
Smith, had stolen the said Iron, this Informant<lb></lb>
on this 15th day of March instant went to the shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo259">Gloucester Row Shoreditch</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the said County belonging to this Informant and<lb></lb>
meeting the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n407-2">John Fox</rs>
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at the Shop Door coming<lb></lb>
out, seemingly with his Coat Pockets full this<lb></lb>
Informant suspected that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n407-3">John Fox</rs>
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had<lb></lb>
taken some more Iron this Informant property<lb></lb>
And this Informant further saith that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n407-4">John Fox</rs>
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seeing this Informant, endeavoured to <lb></lb>
Shun him and threw a Piece of Iron which he<lb></lb>
took out of his pocket on a Dinghill, and this<lb></lb>
Informant on searching the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n407-5">John Fox</rs>
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found<lb></lb>
concealed about his Cloaths seven other Pieces of<lb></lb>
Iron which he had stolen out of this Informants<lb></lb>
Shop of the weight of Thirty Pounds and upwards</p>
<p n="408">Taken and sworn the<lb></lb>
day and year aforesaid}<lb></lb>
J. Penlease</p>
<p n="409"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n409-1">Thos. Hockley</rs>
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