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<p n="412"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50483_geo277">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n412-1">Edward Cooper</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50483_occ99">Servant</rs>
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to the<lb></lb>
Right Honble <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n412-2">Wm. Pitt</rs>
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Taken before me this<lb></lb>
9th. day of May 1760</p>
<p n="413">Who being upon Oath says that on Wednesday Night last about 8 o' Clock<lb></lb>
as he was driving a Sitted Cart from Windson to Town he Overtook upon<lb></lb>
Honnslow Heath a Waggon<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
whit had served Chairman in it, ago that<lb></lb>
when this Informant Cert was Opposite the said Waggon he turned a side<lb></lb>
in Order to pass the said Waggon, but that the Drive of the said Waggon<lb></lb>
then Whipped his House and drove funiously up to this Informant's<lb></lb>
Cart upon which one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n413-1">William Roberts</rs>
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who accompanied this Informant<lb></lb>
on Horse-back turned the said Waggoners House on one side the Read<lb></lb>
in Order that this Informt. might Pass with his Cart, says the said<lb></lb>
Waggoner then repeated the Whipping on his Horses if he intended<lb></lb>
driving against this Informants Cart, upon which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n413-2">Wm. Roberts</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Rede up to the Waggoners fore Horse and Whipped him to one said of the<lb></lb>
Read, and this Informant, further says that he then saw<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
one of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50483_occ100">Chairmen</rs>
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in the Waggon his Spake<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
his Strike at the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n413-3">William Roberts</rs>
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, heard<lb></lb>
them speak something but that this Informant did not under<obscured></obscured>
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what they said, the Noise of his Cart presenting him</p>
<p n="414">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
day & year first above written}<lb></lb>
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<p n="415"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50483_n415-1">Edward Cooper</rs>
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