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<p n="603"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo444">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n603-1">Benjamin Hatton</rs>
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taken upon<lb></lb>
Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n603-2">William Blackborow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ239">Esquire</rs>
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One of<lb></lb>
His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ240">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the<lb></lb>
said County this 1<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15096_date73">9th. day of October 1785</rs>
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<p n="604">This Informant upon his Oath saith that on<lb></lb>
Monday Evening the seventeenth day of October instant He was<lb></lb>
in Company with one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n604-1">William Byrne</rs>
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and two other Men whose<lb></lb>
names are unknown to this Informant at the Crown and<lb></lb>
Anchor Public House at the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo445">Chick Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo446">Saffron<lb></lb>
Hill</rs>
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that about the hour of Eleven of the Clock this Informant<lb></lb>
left the said Three Persons in order to go home to his<lb></lb>
Lodging at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo447">sign of the Golden Lyon</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo448">West Smith field</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that when this Informant came to near the Top of Chick<lb></lb>
Lane he was Seized by three Men and Dragged into a<lb></lb>
Court where they Threw him Down on his back and<lb></lb>
Feloniously took from his Person Two Silver Watches and<lb></lb>
Seven Guineas in Gold this Informants property this<lb></lb>
Informant saith that he hath since been informed that the<lb></lb>
place where he was dragged into as aforesaid is called by<lb></lb>
the Name of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo449">Pheonix Court</rs>
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and is in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo450">Parish of St. Sepulchre</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo451">City of London</rs>
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And this Informant further saith<lb></lb>
that he is Certain that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n604-2">William Byrne</rs>
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with whom he<lb></lb>
was in Company as aforesaid was one of the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Three Persons<lb></lb>
who Feloniously Robbed this Informant as aforesaid</p>
<p n="605">Taken & Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
Day and year first above Written}<lb></lb>
W Blackborow}</p>
<p n="606"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n606-1">Benjamin Hatton</rs>
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