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<p n="240"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo114">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n240-1">Luke Cooper</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 28th. day of January 1768</p>
<p n="241">Who being on Oath says that he is a Worsted Weaver, that he<lb></lb>
lives at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo115">No.</rs>
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3 in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo116">Montague Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo117">Bishopgate Street</rs>
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, says that<lb></lb>
on the 14th. day of December last about a Quarter before ten<lb></lb>
in the Evening a Person came to his Door which was then shut<lb></lb>
opened it and put in a Sword and directed him to put out his<lb></lb>
Lights, says he refused to put them out but that his Wife<lb></lb>
put them out about the Time when the Man came into the<lb></lb>
Room, says that a Person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n241-1">William Evans</rs>
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then put a drawn Sworn to his Breast and<lb></lb>
bid him hold his Tonque says That at this Time there<lb></lb>
being a fire in the Room he saw a little Man go behind<lb></lb>
him and cut and destroy his Work being then in the Loom<lb></lb>
that is to says a Hair Shag <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n241-2">Luke Cooper</rs>
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<p n="242">Sworn before me the day<lb></lb>
& year first above written}</p>
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