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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n441-1">Thomas Piety</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n441-2">William Wattey</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n441-3">William Cook</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n441-4">Sarah Ball</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n441-5">John Page</rs>
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<p n="442">Who being upon Oath say and first the said Thomas Piety for<lb></lb>
himself says that on Wednesday last about one o'Clock in the Afternoon he delivered to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-1">John Hall</rs>
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Servant to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-2">Hannah Baker</rs>
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four Chests of Tea and a Bag of<lb></lb>
Tea at the East India Company's Warehouses in Parkers Gardens <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo275">White Chapel</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to be carried in the said Hannah Bater's Cart to Mr. Page Grocer in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo276">Norton Folgate</rs>
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and that a part of a<lb></lb>
Tea Chest now produced is a part of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
one of the said Chests, and the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-3">John Page</rs>
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for himself says that he hath never received the said Tea or<lb></lb>
Chests nor any part thereof, and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-4">William Cook</rs>
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for himself says<lb></lb>
that on the said Wednesday about four o'Clock in the Afternoon he saw the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-5">John Hall</rs>
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driving the said Cart on Cornhill near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo277">Birchin Lane</rs>
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which<lb></lb>
was not in the direct way from Parkers Gardens aforesaid to Norton Folgate<lb></lb>
that he this Informant saw several Tea Chests and a Bag in the said Cart<lb></lb>
at that time and that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-6">Thomas Hall</rs>
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now present was then in Company<lb></lb>
with the above mentioned <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-7">John Hall</rs>
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, and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-8">William Watley</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself says that on the said Wednesday Evening between 7 & 8 o'Clock<lb></lb>
he saw a Cart with 3 Tea Chests & a Bag in it standing in Chambers Street<lb></lb>
<del>what</del>
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that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-9">Thomas Hall</rs>
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was then with the said<lb></lb>
Cart & had it in his Care as appeared from his own Conversation, that after<lb></lb>
some time the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-10">Thomas Hall</rs>
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fetched <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-11">John Hall</rs>
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his Brother who was<lb></lb>
Mrs. Baker's Servant and ought to have had the Care of the said Cart, that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-12">Thomas Hall</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-13">John Hall</rs>
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then drove the said Cart out of Chambers<lb></lb>
Street up Little Alie Street into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo279">Whitechapel</rs>
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and one of them said the Tea<lb></lb>
was to be delivered in Little <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo280">St. Helen's</rs>
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and this Informant then left them<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-14">Sarah Ball</rs>
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for herself says that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
on Thursday Evening<lb></lb>
last about 7 o'Clock she saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-15">Thomas Hall</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n442-16">John Hall</rs>
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in Company together in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo281">Back Lane</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo282">Parish of St. George</rs>
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