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Image 27 of 35610th February 1783


Middlesex to wit.


The Information of John Cooper< no role > Port Boy< no role >
at the Red Lyon the bottom of Barnett
Hill taken before me this 10th day of
February 1783 .

Who on his Oath saith that on Thursday Evening last he
drove a Gentleman now present who calls himself Francis
Bine from Barnett to the London Coffee House on Ludgate
Hill, at which time he had a Trunk tied before the Chaise
and a Small Box within That after Wm. Bine< no role > was gone
into the said Coffee home a Man came from the Coffee house
door to this Informant, told this Informant that he wanted
the Trunk (before the Chaise) to be carried a good way &
requested this Informant, to go for a Porter adding at the
same time that the was Master of the Coffee house which
this Informant at first refused, but after being strongly
importuned by said Man again, he consented and did
go to fitch a Porter and this Informant further says he
doth verily belive that a person who calls himself Charles
Stokes is the Man who held the before mentioned conversa
tion and that sent him for a Porter as aforesaid

Sworn before me this
10th. day of Febry 1783.}
Sampr Wright< no role >

his
John [mark] Cooper< no role >
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