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<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2249-1">Thomas Quaintance</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2249-2">Edward Turner</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2249-3">William Barnett</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45023_date143">18th. day of October 1775</rs>
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<p n="2250">Who being upon Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2250-1">Thomas Quaintance</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself says that last Friday Evening about six o'Clock he was robbed<lb></lb>
of one pound five Shillings and<del>three</del>
nine pence farthing and a green<lb></lb>
Silk Purse by two Footpads between the 4 & 5 Mile Stones on the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1278">Edgeware Road</rs>
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, that he is very certain that a person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2250-2">William Wenter</rs>
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is one of the persons who robbed<lb></lb>
him as above mentioned and that two Pistols now produced are the<lb></lb>
same Pistols which the said William Wenter presented to this<lb></lb>
Informant, and the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2250-3">Edward Turner</rs>
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for himself says that on<lb></lb>
the said Friday Evening he having heard of Robbery being committed<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1279">Edgeware Road</rs>
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by two Footpads went with some other Persons<lb></lb>
and apprehended <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2250-4">John Maguire</rs>
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now present and the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2250-5">William<lb></lb>
Wenter</rs>
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about half an hour Past 8 o'Clock near the place where the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2250-6">Thomas Quaintance</rs>
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says he was robbed, and that the next<lb></lb>
day he went with some other Persons to search near the place<lb></lb>
where the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2250-7">John Maguire</rs>
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and William Wenter were apprehended<lb></lb>
and there found one of the Said Pistols now produced, and the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2250-8">William Barnett</rs>
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for himself that he was present last Saturday<lb></lb>
Morning with the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2250-9">Edward Turner</rs>
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and others on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1280">Edgeware<lb></lb>
Road</rs>
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and there found the other of the said Pistols now produced<lb></lb>
near the place where he was told the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2250-10">John Maguire</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
William Wenter were apprehended.</p>
<p n="2251">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
October 18th. 1775}<lb></lb>
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<p n="2252"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2252-1">Edwd. Turner</rs>
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<p n="2253">his<lb></lb>
Thos.<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Quaintance<lb></lb>
Mark.</p>
<p n="2254"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2254-1">Wm. Barnett</rs>
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