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1768

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Middlesex To wit


The Information of Luke Cooper< no role > taken before
me this 28th. day of January 1768

Who being on Oath says that he is a Worsted Weaver, that he
lives at No. 3 in Montague Court Bishopgate Street , says that
on the 14th. day of December last about a Quarter before ten
in the Evening a Person came to his Door which was then shut
opened it and put in a Sword and directed him to put out his
Lights, says he refused to put them out but that his Wife
put them out about the Time when the Man came into the
Room, says that a Person now present who calls himself
William Evans< no role > then put a drawn Sworn to his Breast and
bid him hold his Tonque says That at this Time there
being a fire in the Room he saw a little Man go behind
him and cut and destroy his Work being then in the Loom
that is to says a Hair Shag Luke Cooper< no role >

Sworn before me the day
& year first above written}

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