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<p n="1374"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1451">Westminster</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1374-1">James Dawson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1452">Dyot Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1453">Saint Giless</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ573">Laboured</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date235">fourteenth day of September<lb></lb>
1786</rs>
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<p n="1375">Who being upon Oath saith, that he knows one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1375-1">Joseph Crawley</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
two persons now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1375-2">Joseph Wright</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1375-3">John Lawson</rs>
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That on Friday morning last at about one o'Clock the said three Persons<lb></lb>
came to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1454">the George and Crown</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1455">Broad Saint Giles's</rs>
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(kept by Mr. Mints) at<lb></lb>
which time this Informant was assisting there as a Waiter, which he<lb></lb>
frequently does, tho' he is not a regular hired ServantThat he served<lb></lb>
said three Persons with two two shillings worths of PunchThat said<lb></lb>
Crawley changed a Guinea, paid for the Punch, and gave four shillings<lb></lb>
and Six pence to each of the other PersonsThat from the Conversation<lb></lb>
of the said three Persons he judged they had Committed a Robbery, particularly<lb></lb>
from an Expression which dropped from one of them, but which he<lb></lb>
cannot tell viz: "We'll buy a pair of Sticks now"meaning (as this<lb></lb>
Informant than understood) a pair of PistolsThat at about nine oClock<lb></lb>
the said Morning, he went to said Crawleys Lodgings in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1456">Blue Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1457">Saffron<lb></lb>
Hill</rs>
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, in hopes that he would give him a shilling or twoThat he had<lb></lb>
not been there long, before said Wright came inThat said Wright asked<lb></lb>
said Crawley, if he had disposed of the WatchThat Crawley answered he<lb></lb>
did not know where to dispose of itThat Crawley then asked this<lb></lb>
Informant if he knew where he could dispose of itInformant<lb></lb>
answered, they might dispose of it at Mrs. Harris's in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1458">Old Street</rs>
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That<lb></lb>
said Wright went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1459">the Distillers Arms</rs>
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the corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1460">Blue Court</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
to wait till Crawley was ready to goThat when Crawley had got<lb></lb>
his Things from the Washerwomans he and this Informant went to<lb></lb>
said Public House where the said Wright then was, with another<lb></lb>
person (whom this Informant doth not know)That said other Person<lb></lb>
soon went away when said Crawley, said Wright, and this Informant<lb></lb>
went together to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1461">Old Street</rs>
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, to dispose of said WatchThat said Wright<lb></lb>
and this Informant went into Mrs. Harris's in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1462">Old Street</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
together, and said Crawley waited at a Public House close byThat<lb></lb>
said Wright offered said Watch to Sale, and asked four Guineas for it<lb></lb>
That they were in a back Room of said HouseThat two Men and a</p>
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