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<p n="1766"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1197">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1766-1">Richard Croxton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1766-2">John<lb></lb>
Bellett</rs>
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taken before me this 28th. day of May 1784</p>
<p n="1767">Who being upon Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1767-1">Richard<lb></lb>
Croxton</rs>
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says that last Night about half past nine oClock he was<lb></lb>
Robbed near the Swan in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1198">Kingsland Road</rs>
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of a Silver Watch and<lb></lb>
five Shillings in Money by two Footpads immediately after<lb></lb>
which he called out "Stop Thief" when they ran away <lb></lb>
towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1199">Shoreditch</rs>
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That this Informant in endeavoring to<lb></lb>
escape from them fell down, at which time they robbed him<lb></lb>
and that one of them said "Damn his Eyes cut him"- And<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1767-2">John Bellet</rs>
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says that he and his Brother were<lb></lb>
about one Hundred Yards from the Sworn at this time, and<lb></lb>
heard said Mr. Croxton cry out and upon turing Round<lb></lb>
saw two Men running from him towards them -That<lb></lb>
they turned into a Field near this Informant and his<lb></lb>
Brother at which time one of them said "Damn his Eyes<lb></lb>
let us cut across this Field or us shall be Robbed" - That<lb></lb>
this Informant and his Brother pursued said two Men<lb></lb>
when one of them fell viz <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1767-3">John Turner</rs>
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now present whom<lb></lb>
they secured and who at the time of his falling throw away<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ420">Bayonet</rs>
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now produced</p>
<p n="1768">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
this 28th day of May 1784}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1768-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="1770">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1770-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Bellett</rs>
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Mark</p>
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