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<p n="255"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr.<lb></lb>
to Wit.}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n255-1">Newcomb King</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n255-2">William<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n255-3">Robert Plomoridge</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date52">20th: Day of July 1786</rs>
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</p>
<p n="256">Who being on Oath say and Frist Newcomb King<lb></lb>
for Himself says that on Monday Night last about half<lb></lb>
past Ten o Clock He tyed his Jack Ass at the Door of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo271">the<lb></lb>
Ship</rs>
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the house <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo272">Mill Bank Row</rs>
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Whilst He went into the<lb></lb>
House with his Wife & another Woman to Drink that in<lb></lb>
about a Quarter of an Hour he came out and missed<lb></lb>
the Ass that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n256-3">Robert Plomeridge</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ104">Watchman</rs>
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informed<lb></lb>
him He had seen a Man ride on As up <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo273">Mill Bank Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and this Informant further says that on Tuesday Night last<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n256-4">William Brown</rs>
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<interp inst="LMOBPS45030_n256-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
came & informed Him He had bought an<lb></lb>
Ass which He believed to be his and that the Ass now<lb></lb>
produced is the property of this informant</p>
<p n="257"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n257-1">William Brown</rs>
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<interp inst="LMOBPS45030_n257-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
for himself says that on Tuesday Morng<lb></lb>
last about Nine oClock the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n257-2">Joseph Cooper</rs>
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<interp inst="LMOBPS45030_n257-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
came<lb></lb>
to his House and asked Him to Buy an Ass demanding Six<lb></lb>
Shillings for it that this Informant agreed with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n257-3">Joseph<lb></lb>
Cooper</rs>
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for Five Shilling which Sum He paid into the Hand<lb></lb>
of a Boy in Company with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n257-4">Joseph Cooper</rs>
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and that<lb></lb>
they immediately divided the Money that being Informed the<lb></lb>
Ass was the property of November King He went to his<lb></lb>
House in the Evening & Informed him that on the said New=<lb></lb>
comb King seing the Ass He Immediately owned it</p>
<p n="258">And <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n258-1">Robert Plomeridge</rs>
<interp inst="LMOBPS45030_n258-1" type="given" value="Robert"></interp>
<interp inst="LMOBPS45030_n258-1" type="surname" value="Plomeridge"></interp>
<interp inst="LMOBPS45030_n258-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
for Himself says that He is a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ105">Watchman</rs>
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on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo274">Mill Bank Row</rs>
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that on Monday Night last<lb></lb>
about half past Ten o'Clock He says a Man ride on Ass up<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo275">Mill Bank Street</rs>
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and that He believe the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n258-2">Joseph<lb></lb>
Cooper</rs>
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to be the same Man he & an on the said Ass</p>
<p n="259">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
20th Day of July 1786<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n259-1">Robt: Harrington</rs>
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</p>
<p n="260"> <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n260-1">William<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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</p>
<p n="261">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n261-1">Robert<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Plomeridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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