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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2685-1">John Head</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me One of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45019_occ431">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County</p>
<p n="2686">Who being upon Oath saith that on Tuesday night test<lb></lb>
about 11'o Clock this Informant going thorough <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo1069">the Strand</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo1070">Middlesex</rs>
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side of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo1071">Temple Bar</rs>
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he was attacked<lb></lb>
by three Women one of which Women put her hand<lb></lb>
into this Breeches pocket & pulled out a purse containing<lb></lb>
therein Six Gunieas & a half in Gold & some Silver but<lb></lb>
how that quantity he cannot tell and this Informant<lb></lb>
saw the said Woman whom he doth not know deliver<lb></lb>
the said Peuse to a woman not present who calls<lb></lb>
herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2686-1">Frances Brown</rs>
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and this Informant Caught fast<lb></lb>
hold of her hand in order to take his purse & Money<lb></lb>
from her but by some means she had conveyed it<lb></lb>
to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
one of the other two women & they both made of<lb></lb>
this Informant kept fast hold of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2686-2">Frances<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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. this Informant further saith that a Man<lb></lb>
who either is or personated the Brothr of the said <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2686-3">Frances Brown</rs>
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came & offered to pay the Money if he<lb></lb>
would not prosecute the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2686-4">Frances Brown</rs>
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<lb></lb>
which this Informant refused & this Informant hath<lb></lb>
been since told that the Brother or pretended Brother<lb></lb>
had delivered the said Money into the hands of one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2686-5">Samuel Bennet</rs>
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<p n="2687">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
16th. day of August 1773}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2687-1">Saunder Welch</rs>
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<p n="2688"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2688-1">John Head</rs>
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