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The Information of
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20th: Day of July 1786
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Who being on Oath say and Frist Newcomb King
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for Himself says that on Monday Night last about half
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past Ten o Clock He tyed his Jack Ass at the Door of
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the house
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Whilst He went into the
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House with his Wife & another Woman to Drink that in
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about a Quarter of an Hour he came out and missed
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the Ass that
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Robert Plomeridge
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informed
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him He had seen a Man ride on As up
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and this Informant further says that on Tuesday Night last
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William Brown
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came & informed Him He had bought an
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Ass which He believed to be his and that the Ass now
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produced is the property of this informant
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William Brown
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for himself says that on Tuesday Morng
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last about Nine oClock the Prisoner
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Joseph Cooper
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came
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to his House and asked Him to Buy an Ass demanding Six
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Shillings for it that this Informant agreed with the said
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for Five Shilling which Sum He paid into the Hand
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of a Boy in Company with the said
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and that
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they immediately divided the Money that being Informed the
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Ass was the property of November King He went to his
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House in the Evening & Informed him that on the said New=
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comb King seing the Ass He Immediately owned it
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And
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Robert Plomeridge
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for Himself says that He is a
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on
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that on Monday Night last
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about half past Ten o'Clock He says a Man ride on Ass up
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and that He believe the Prisoner
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Joseph
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Cooper
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to be the same Man he & an on the said Ass
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Sworn before me this
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20th Day of July 1786
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Robt: Harrington
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his
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Plomeridge
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