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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-246">George S Crutchfield</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1920">Teamer Street</rs>
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in the said County<lb></lb>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1922">No. 9</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-2">John Walker</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1924">No. 12</rs>
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taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date315">23rd day of Oct 1786</rs>
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before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-3">John Staples</rs>
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Esqr<lb></lb>
One of His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ758">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County Who being on Oath<lb></lb>
Say and first The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-26">George Strutchfield</rs>
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on his Oath says about The hour of Ten on<lb></lb>
Saturday night last he Moored his Boat with the had fast and Padlock produced to<lb></lb>
an Iron Ring fast to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1927">New Crane Stairs</rs>
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for safety<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
to be easily come at High<lb></lb>
water about the hour of Two the same night to go to move a Lighter lying in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1929">Hanover<lb></lb>
hole</rs>
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from thence to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1930">Limehouse hole</rs>
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Says himself and others having had their<lb></lb>
Boats frequently taken in the night from their moorings and made use off<lb></lb>
to rob Snips or Vessels He with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-4">John Walter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-42">John Legon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-5">John Jefferys</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-6">Benjamin Shaw</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-7">William Maplestone</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-8">John Thomas Legon</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-9">Peter Constable</rs>
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agreed to Watch their Boats on the said nightThat all of them count <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-10">Peter Constable</rs>
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were in a boat<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-11">John Walter</rs>
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a Little below the said Stairs and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-12">Peter Constable</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was in about above the said Stairs in Order to give notice if any of the Boats<lb></lb>
belonging to Waterman who ply at the said Stairs were taken awayThat between<lb></lb>
the Hours of Twelve and one the same night They saw a Boat coming out from<lb></lb>
the said stairs which Boat they pursed and Overtook the said Boat between the Tier<lb></lb>
of Ships which lye off <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1931">New Crane Stairs</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1932">King Edward Stairs</rs>
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. which Boat<lb></lb>
proved to be his own boat that he had moored as aforesaid and The Four men now<lb></lb>
present who say their names are<del>John</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-23">Charles Riley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-14">Thomas Butler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-15">Samuel Williams</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-16">John Lacey</rs>
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in<del>the</del>
this said boat and likewise found that his took rope which he had locked as<lb></lb>
aforesaid had been cut further says he saw the Knife produced taken from One of the Prisoners<lb></lb>
which knife appears to him to have been used in Cutting the said Rope further says when<lb></lb>
they come up with the said Boat one of them said the boat was his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1807-17">William Negus</rs>
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on his Oath says about the Hour of Twelve on Saturday night last<lb></lb>
as he was in his Watch box in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1933">New Gravel Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1934">Shadwell</rs>
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he saw the Prisoners present come down<lb></lb>
the said Lane One of them having a pair of Skulls on his Shoulder all of them going<lb></lb>
toward <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1935">New Crane Stairs</rs>
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which is about the Distance of Seventy or Eighty Yard<lb></lb>
from where he was in his said Box</p>
<p n="1808"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1808-1">John Walter</rs>
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on his Oath says he was present and is certain the whole Account as given<lb></lb>
by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1808-2">George Crutchfield</rs>
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is true</p>
<p n="1809">The <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date316">23rd day of Sworn Octr 1786</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1809-1">John Staples</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1810"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1810-1">George Crutchfield</rs>
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D</p>
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Negus</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1936">No 14</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1813-3">John Legon</rs>
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Ledgers at <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1813-4">John Walters</rs>
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ditto<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1813-5">John Waller</rs>
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for the upper of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1813-6">Peter Constable</rs>
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his appear</p>
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