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1789

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Middlesex
to wit}


The Information of William Wright< no role > & John Wright< no role > taken
before me George Reid< no role > Esquire one of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting in &
for the said County this 27th Day ofJuly
1789

who being duly sworn uponhertheir Oath, saysith
and first this informant Wilim. Wright for Kimsell sayeth that he is Servant to Mr Wright, Glanville Mews< no role >
in the said County and drives an Hackney Coach
for him that on Wednesday night last about
½ past 11 o'Clock, he put his Martin Coach &
horses in the Rank in Piccadilly , end of the
Hay Market and put New Bags on the [..] Horses
with Seeds of Coin, then went into a Public House
to refresh himself, in about Ten Minutes he
came out of the said house and missed his Coach
and, horses observing they had been taken out of
the Rankwhereupon being much alarmed he
immediately ran over Westminster Bridge towards
Vauxhallthat near the Nis'll and a half Stone, he
met his Coach & horses as coming from Vauxhall
and saw the Person now present who calls
himself Thomas Tilley< no role > upon Hubox driving of the same
he likewise saw another Man behind the sd. Coach whom he did
not know, upon meeting the Coach he spoke to
the Man now present who was driving, and
asked him where he was going with his Horses
and was answered by him, "The Coachman
was behind"immediately stopped the houses
and jumped off the Box on the other Side when
this Informant directly ran round and [..]
him, mean while the Man who was behind the
Coach ma [..] e his EsapeAnd this Informant




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