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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50419_n264-1">John Whiteshead</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50419_occ85">Journeyman Harnessmaker</rs>
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working at Mr. Beech's in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50419_geo140">little Queen Street</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50419_geo141">Saint Giles in the<lb></lb>
Fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50419_geo142">County of Middlesex</rs>
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taken upon Oath this<lb></lb>
4th. day of June 1753</p>
<p n="265">This Informant upon his Oath Saith That on the Second<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
of June instant between the House of Eleven and Twelve at Night<lb></lb>
as he was going up <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50419_geo143">Drury Lane</rs>
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he was accosted by a Bason who<lb></lb>
alls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50419_n265-1">Elizabeth Spencer</rs>
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who asked this Informant to go along<lb></lb>
with her Upon which this Informant Consented and they went<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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up a Court and as they were talking together he this Informant<lb></lb>
caught the Hand of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50419_n265-2">Elizabeth Spencer</rs>
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in his Pockett and<lb></lb>
that She the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50419_n265-3">Elizabeth Spencer</rs>
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feloniously and privately<lb></lb>
took from his Person Eight Shillings in Moneys numbred the<lb></lb>
Proper Money of him<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
this Informant</p>
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<p n="267">Sworn the Day and Yor<lb></lb>
above said Before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50419_n267-1">Benjamin Cox</rs>
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