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<p n="264">The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15030_n264-1">William Billings</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15030_occ150">Sr.</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15030_n264-2">Jno. Ward</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15030_occ151">Knight</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15030_occ152">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15030_geo171">City of London</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15030_date62">Second day of September<lb></lb>
1719</rs>
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<p n="265">This Examinant Saith that on Fryday the fourteenth day<lb></lb>
of August last he this Examinant hired a Horse in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15030_geo172">Drury lane</rs>
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& rode out of Town & between <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15030_geo173">Hammersmith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15030_geo174">Brentford</rs>
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overtook two other persons on Horseback<lb></lb>
<del>Whose Name were</del>
vizt <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15030_n265-1">William Stevenson</rs>
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And<lb></lb>
Constable and proceeded with then to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15030_geo175">Longford</rs>
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where<lb></lb>
they drank together & then returned back to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15030_geo176">Hounslow heath</rs>
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<lb></lb>
where they rode up & down for four or five hours and<lb></lb>
at four a Clock the next morning being Saturday they<lb></lb>
mett with a Stage Coach upon the said Heath And this<lb></lb>
Examinant further Saith tha the Said Constable gave<lb></lb>
this Examinant a Couple of Pistolls and then they all<lb></lb>
rode up to the said Coach wherein were three or four persons<lb></lb>
And this Examinant and the Said Constable presented<lb></lb>
their Pistolls to the Coachman & the said Stevenson drew<lb></lb>
out his hanger & they bidd the Coachman Stop Upon Which<lb></lb>
Some Persons in or about ye Coach Shott this Examinants<lb></lb>
Horse dead under him And then the said Constable took<lb></lb>
this Examinant up behind him & so procured his Escape &<lb></lb>
then they rode Cross the Countrey to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15030_geo177">Stanenow</rs>
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& thence<lb></lb>
to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15030_geo178">London</rs>
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<p n="266"> <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15030_date63">2d Die Septembris Ao. Din<lb></lb>
1719</rs>
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Capt Coram me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15030_n266-1">Jno. Ward</rs>
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. Mayr</p>
<p n="267"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15030_n267-1">Wm: Billings</rs>
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