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1784

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Richard Brindsley Sheridan of Bruton
Street in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square
Esqr . on his Oath saith That Yesterday in the
afternoon after the Poll was closed this Dept.
was some time in the Vestry Room Covent Garden
That on his going out he [..] observed these had been a Tumult
[..] and he says a Man lying upon he
Ground near the Pump there, Says that
before he saw the Man lye down he desired
Mr. Wild to take away the Constables, to
which he answered, That they were not
Westminster Constables, that they did not
mind, him, and believed their intention
had been to make a Riot, both the Constable
and the other Man being there Brandishing
their Sticks, Says that he Constables fell
back, the other Joseph doing the same and
Dept. their thought there would be no Blow
Says that the Men with Marrow [..] & Cleavers
[..] [..] thought nothing them and same before him after there
was a Riot at Mr. Woods.

R Sheridan

Robert Stalker< no role > of No 44 Wells Street< no role > in the
Parish of St. Mary le bone Taylor on his Oath
saith that he was at Covent Garden Yesterday
in the Afternoon, Says that he stood upon a
Seaffold there, Says that he saw many Blows
Pass there, and that he saw in Man Dressed
in a Chairman's Great Blue Coat White Stocks
and Black Breeches , wearing his own their
with




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