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<p n="372"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo210">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n372-1">Peter<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n372-2">Richard Dignam</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n372-3">John<lb></lb>
Kipping</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n372-4">John Dixon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before the two of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ56">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="373">Who being severally upon Oath say and first this<lb></lb>
Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n373-1">Peter Brown</rs>
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for himself saith that<lb></lb>
about 3o' Clock in the afternoon of Sunday last her<lb></lb>
went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo211">Islington</rs>
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to dine with a relation that about<lb></lb>
Eight o Clock he returned towards Town and when he<lb></lb>
came near to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo212">New River head</rs>
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that is Bicked in<lb></lb>
about Twenty yards distance & between this Informt<lb></lb>
& Town he saw three Men standing in the footway<lb></lb>
which is the path that leads to Town two en one side<lb></lb>
of the Path & the other on the other order which greatly<lb></lb>
Alarmed him and a lamp was very near the place<lb></lb>
& when he came up to them the person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n373-2">John Brown</rs>
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as he verily believes<lb></lb>
came up to him with a Pistol in his hand & demanded<lb></lb>
his Money & then another person now present who<lb></lb>
cells himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n373-3">Thomas Free</rs>
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as this Informant verily<lb></lb>
believes came up with a Pistol in his hand and look<lb></lb>
out of this Informants pocket Six Shillings in<lb></lb>
Money and the other person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n373-4">Thomas Pinckston</rs>
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came up with a<lb></lb>
drawn Cutlass now produced and threatened to but<lb></lb>
him down Immediately if he made any resistance<lb></lb>
or words to that Effect that after he was Robbed<lb></lb>
they continued upon the same spot & this Informt.<lb></lb>
pursued his very to Torn. & called at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo213">Clerkenwell<lb></lb>
Bridewell</rs>
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& gave there a description of the persons<lb></lb>
who had Robbed him And this Informant is certain that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n373-5">Thomas Pinckston</rs>
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in the man who held the Cutless at him so about<lb></lb>
described And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n373-6">John Dixon</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
saith that he is a Servant at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo214">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that between Eight & Nine o Clock on Sunday night<lb></lb>
last the other Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n373-7">peter Brown</rs>
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called at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo215">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
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& told this Informant that</p>
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