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me this 12th. day of Feb: 1768
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Who being upon Oath severally say that they very well
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remember the time that Luke Coopers work was Cut in the Looms
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in Montague Court
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that it was on a Monday
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Night and as they believe on the 14th. of Decr. last farther
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say that between the houses of twelve and one the same Night
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they these Informants went by the direction of their Master Mr. Green
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round to the rest of his Men (the aforesaid Cooper being one)
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in order to caution them to take Care of their Work, says amongst the
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rest they went about the hour aforesaid to the Lodging of one
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James
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one of their said Master's Men in old Mitchell Street
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and was there told by his wife that he was not at home but was at
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his Brothers at the Admiral Vernon's head in New Nicholls that
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say that they went there Immediately and were
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was
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let in by the said Merchant
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whom they told what had happened that the said
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Evans
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Merchant first
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wanted them to go into a dark room to which they objected being a Little
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alarmed, that Merchant pressed them to stay telling them that there
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was a
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there who cou'd tell them all about it, or more
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about it or Wards to that effect that a Candle and a Pott of
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Beer was then called for and that there then appeared
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William Evans
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now in Newgate an another Man whom Informts. did not know that
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they all went into a Room together Say that the said Evans then asked
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Informts. why Mr. Green had not embodied his Men for that he had had
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a Letter the same as Mrs. Peyton which Letter he Evens had seen
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before Mr. Green, said Give my Service to your Master, tell him my Name
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in Evans, that there shall he no more damage done to hight, provided
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he embodice his Men tomorrow, but if he does not there hall be more
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Cost or all Cut tomorrow, or words that or the like effect
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Sworn this 12: day
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of Feb: 1768 before me}
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