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Image 247 of 40218th April 1771


Thomas Gibson< no role > of White Lyon Yard Silk Dresser Saith That
Tuesday or Wednesday last he saw Clarke Coming from Hog Lane
Informant thinks with a Thousand People about him
Saith he knew Mr. Clarke very wellThat Clarke at the corner
White Lyon Yard, At first stood up with his back like against
the Wall but soon afterwards dropt down
That after he was down on his Backside a Drayman
Whippd him (he thinks) for the space of a Minute in all Parts
of his BodyBut he could not See the Particular parts
Saith the Man whippd' him with all his Strength as he Believes
How Many Strokes he gave him Informant cannot Say
That he saw nothing more done to him there That he went
Home and staid Two or three Minutes And then went out
again and found the Mob and Clarke in Wheeler Street
That there some Struck him and some threw Dirt at him
And from thence they went all the way done Quaker
Street and Over the Broad way at th end of Wilkes Street
And from thence along Hare Street That he saw nothing
done to the Deceased from Wheeler Street to Hare Street
That the Deceased kept running before the Mob like a mad
Ox BleedingThat by the Brewhouse in Hare Street
they Stripd him and Laid his Cloaths in the Channell
That he saw no more done to him till they get him in
the Field at the bottom of Hare Street There they Beat him
and Kick'd him and drew him along the Ground and
Talkd' about a Pond to Put him in Sometimes he was up
and sometimes DownThat they drove him into a Pond
in the FieldBelieves it was about half an hour after
three when he was first Put into the PondThat he saw




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