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<p n="249"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo119">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n249-1">Robert Brathwaite</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo120">George Yard</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo121">White Chapel</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ44">Weaver</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n249-2">Thomas Bingham</rs>
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of Patternoster<lb></lb>
row <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo122">Spital Fields</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ45">Labourer</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 12th. day of Feb: 1768</p>
<p n="250">Who being upon Oath severally say that they very well<lb></lb>
remember the time that Luke Coopers work was Cut in the Looms<lb></lb>
in Montague Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo123">Bishopsgate Street</rs>
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that it was on a Monday<lb></lb>
Night and as they believe on the 14th. of Decr. last farther<lb></lb>
say that between the houses of twelve and one the same Night<lb></lb>
they these Informants went by the direction of their Master Mr. Green<lb></lb>
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round to the rest of his Men (the aforesaid Cooper being one)<lb></lb>
in order to caution them to take Care of their Work, says amongst the<lb></lb>
rest they went about the hour aforesaid to the Lodging of one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n250-1">James<lb></lb>
Merchant</rs>
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one of their said Master's Men in old Mitchell Street<lb></lb>
and was there told by his wife that he was not at home but was at<lb></lb>
his Brothers at the Admiral Vernon's head in New Nicholls that<lb></lb>
say that they went there Immediately and were<del>was</del>
let in by the said Merchant<lb></lb>
whom they told what had happened that the said<del>Evans</del>
Merchant first<lb></lb>
wanted them to go into a dark room to which they objected being a Little<lb></lb>
alarmed, that Merchant pressed them to stay telling them that there<lb></lb>
was a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ46">Gentleman</rs>
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there who cou'd tell them all about it, or more<lb></lb>
about it or Wards to that effect that a Candle and a Pott of<lb></lb>
Beer was then called for and that there then appeared <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n250-2">William Evans</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now in Newgate an another Man whom Informts. did not know that<lb></lb>
they all went into a Room together Say that the said Evans then asked<lb></lb>
Informts. why Mr. Green had not embodied his Men for that he had had<lb></lb>
a Letter the same as Mrs. Peyton which Letter he Evens had seen<lb></lb>
before Mr. Green, said Give my Service to your Master, tell him my Name<lb></lb>
in Evans, that there shall he no more damage done to hight, provided<lb></lb>
he embodice his Men tomorrow, but if he does not there hall be more<lb></lb>
Cost or all Cut tomorrow, or words that or the like effect</p>
<p n="251"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n251-1">Robert Brathwaite</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n251-2">Thos Bingham</rs>
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<p n="252">Sworn this 12: day<lb></lb>
of Feb: 1768 before me}</p>
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