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Image 349 of 40226th August 1771


Middlesex
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The Information of James Sheridan< no role >
Fredrick Khuff< no role > Thomas Keys< no role > John
Sowerly
< no role > taken before Us
two of his Majestys Justices of the Peace
for the said County

Who Severally being upon Oath say and first this
Informant James Sheridan< no role > for himself saith that
on Monday the first of July last this Informant
together with James Godbolt< no role > and Harden Handland< no role >
set out together from the House of One Mr. Cave in
Maynard Street St. Giles about 9 o'Clock in the Evening
to go and Rob. they went up into Mary le Bone
Fields. but it being light they Waited about till
about 10 o'Clock then they went into a Field near
Leeson Green & they Stopped a Gentleman now present
who calls himself Fredrick Khuff< no role > and took from him
One two Guinea Piece One Guinea two half Guineas
about Six Shillings in Silver [..] a Bad Shilling a
Ring and a Smell Key And about Noon the next
Day this Informant Jas. Godbolt< no role > & Harden Handland< no role >
were at the Noaks in Dyot Street were Handland
Changed the two Guineas Piece with Thos. Keys< no role >
The Land lord in the Back Room

And this Informant Fredrick Khuff< no role > for himself
saith that on or about Monday the said first
Day of July he was Robbed at the time in the
Place and in the manner abovementioned by
three Men of a Two Guinea piece One Guinea
two half Guineas about Six Shillings is Silver
a Bad Shilling a Gold Ring & a Small Keys
and further saith that the two Guinea Piece which
he last was of the Coin of King George the Second &
had a Black Mark upon it and verily believes to that
the best of his knowledge two Guineas piece now produced is the Piece
of which he was so Robbed of as abovementioned
& saith that the Men who Robbed himthere
of them was a Tall Man and the other two much
Shorter it being Dark he cannot positively




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