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Middlesex to wit


The Information of Peter Giles< no role > of Park Street Gentleman
and Samuel Mayner< no role > taken before me this 30th.. day
of January 1784.

Who on their Oath say and first the said Peter Giles< no role > says that
about 8 o' Clock in the Evening of Wednesday was sevenight, he was
robbed in the Bath Post Coach, near the four mile Stone on the
Brentford read, of a brass Shilling resembling that now produceed,
and about 7 shillings besidesby a singh Highwayman , mounted
on a lowish bay Horse or Mare, with a white face and a short
swist tailThat the said Highwayman was dressed in a light
coloured Great Coat and a round Hat. And the said Samuel
Mayner
< no role > says that having heard of the said Robbery at Ken-
sington Turnpike, he went to the Turnpike at the Gravel Pits
where about ten o'Clock, John Wood< no role > now present came up on
horseback, carrying his Great Coat now produced in his hands
in which were a brace of Pistols loaded. That Informant secured
said Wood and in hisleft handBreeches pocket found the
brass Shilling now producedAnd further says that the Horse
on which said Wood then rode was a low bay Horse, with
a White face and a short swish tail.

Sworn before me this
30th day of Janry.. 1784}

Sampn Wright< no role >

Peter Giles< no role >
Saml. Mayner< no role >




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