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<p n="1020"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo722">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1020-1">John Knaresborough</rs>
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Simpson<lb></lb>
of No. 2 Spur Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo723">Leicester fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo724">Haberdasher</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this 20th. day of April 1784</p>
<p n="1021">Who being upon Oath says that on Saturday last about<lb></lb>
half past 3 o Clock in the afternoon as he was passing along<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo725">Henrietta Street</rs>
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a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1021-1">Henry<lb></lb>
Griffiths</rs>
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with two other persons forced him upon some Steps of<lb></lb>
a Street Door & held him there for about 5 Minutes when he felt<lb></lb>
one of the said two Persons hand at his Breeches Pocket, his<lb></lb>
Pocket turned on the outside and three Guineas one shilling and<lb></lb>
a six pence gone out of his PocketThat he seized said Man<lb></lb>
by the Collar in order to take him into Custody when said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1021-2">Henry Griffiths</rs>
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immediately struck him on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo726">Collar bone</rs>
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and rescued said Man from him from which he is very<lb></lb>
Sure the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1021-3">Henry Griffiths</rs>
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is one of the persons concerned<lb></lb>
in picking his Pocket as aforesaid</p>
<p n="1022">John Knaresbro Simpson</p>
<p n="1023">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
20th. day of April 1784}</p>
<p n="1024">M Addington</p>
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