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15th December 1788 - 27th April 1789

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Image 317 of 3768th December 1788


Middlesex to wit


The Information of Henry Hirst< no role > of Charles Street
Covent Garden , Hannah Hirst< no role > his Wife William
Beckwith
< no role > of the same place, John Credland< no role > of
the parish of Saint Margaret Westminster
Labourer , and Duncan Grant< no role > of the same
Parish Labourer taken before me this 6th.
day of March 1789.

Who being upon Oath say and first the said Henry
Hirst
< no role > for himself saith that between the hours of seven and eight
o' Clock on Monday night last as he this Informant in
Company with his said Wife and the said William Beckwith< no role >
in a post Chase were passing on the load between Brentford
and Turnham Green , they were stopped by two Footpads armed
with Pistols, who robbed this Informant of an half
Guinea, One Shilling, and two counterfeit Six pences - And
further saith that he doth verily believe that a person now
present who calls himself John Jennings< no role > is one of the Footpads
that so robbed him as aforesaid - And that he doth verily believe
that the two counterfeit Six pences now produced by the
said Duncan Grant< no role > , are the two Six pences of which he was
so robbed; and that the half Guinea also now produced
by the said Duncan Grant< no role > resembles that of which he
was so robbed as aforesaid - And the said Hannah Hirst< no role >
for herself sixth that she was robbed at the same time
and place of One Guinea and some Half pence by the
said two Footpads - And [..]
that the Pistol now produced by Duncan Grant< no role > very
much resembles [..] the pistol which one of said
Footpads had in his hand when he committed the said robbery
And the said William Beckwith< no role > for himself saith that he was
robbed by the two Footpads of Six Shillings and Six
pence at the same time and Place and that [..] one of
said Footpads was dressed inn a drab Coloured Coat like that
now worn by a person now present who calls himself
John Wood< no role > and the other in a dark Coloured or brown great
Coat.




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