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<p n="1233"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45008_geo590">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45008_n1233-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Groves</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45008_occ356">Servant</rs>
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to Mr. St<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45008_geo591">Dunstable</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45008_date70">23d. July 1764</rs>
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<p n="1234">Who being upon Oath says that last Wednesday Night<lb></lb>
about a Quarter before Eleven o Clock, at which time<lb></lb>
he was Guarding the Nothing Fly or Stage Coach, the<lb></lb>
said Coach was stopt, by two Highway men at the bottom<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45008_geo592">Highgate Hill</rs>
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, one of which presented a Pistol and<lb></lb>
demanded Money from the Passengers, that a Lady<lb></lb>
in the Coach then flung her Pur<obscured></obscured>
out to him but<lb></lb>
that this Informant after bidding him keep off<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Fired at the Highway man who presented the Pistol<lb></lb>
and shot him from off his Horse, and farther says<lb></lb>
that said Highwayman much at the same time Fired<lb></lb>
off his Pistol, and that his Accomplice then Rode<lb></lb>
off towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45008_geo593">Highgate</rs>
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, says he has since seen<lb></lb>
a Person in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45008_geo594">New Prison</rs>
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who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45008_n1234-1">Hamilton Ball</rs>
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whom he believes to be he Person<lb></lb>
who stopt to the Coach and Fired a Pistol as aforesaid<lb></lb>
he having acknowledge the same to him.</p>
<p n="1235">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
the day & Year aforesaid}</p>
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<p n="1237">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45008_n1237-1">Thos.<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Groves</rs>
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Mark</p>
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