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Middlesex to wit


The Information of John Allen< no role >
taken and made or Oath before me one of his
Majesty's Justices of the peace in and for the said
County of Middlesex the thirteenth day of October
1781.

This Informant saith that he is a Farmer and lives
of Kingsland in the said County. That [..] about two o'clock in the Morning of
Wednesday last the 10th. day of October instant as this
Informant was coming home in Company with his Wife in
a Hackney Coach he was attacked in Kingsland Road in
the parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the said county by
five Footpads armed. That two of them stood, one on each
Side of the Coach Door, and two others came into the Coach
and robbed this Informant of Fifteen Guineas and some
Silver, but did not rob his Wife of any Thing. And this
Informant further saith that John Fowler< no role > and John Harford< no role >
are two of the persons who attacked this Informant
and robbed him as aforesaid

Taken and sworn the day
and Year first above written}

D Wilmot

John Allen< no role >




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