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<p n="704"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo246">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n704-1">George Hall</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo247">Georges<lb></lb>
Court Clerkenwell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45010_occ99">Gent</rs>
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: and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n704-2">Vincent<lb></lb>
Wcock</rs>
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of the same Dial Plate <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45010_occ100">Painter</rs>
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<p n="705">Who being upon Oath severally says and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n705-1">George Hale</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself saith that on Monday Morning last about Ten<lb></lb>
of the Clock<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n705-2">Thomas Smith</rs>
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now present run up Stairs<lb></lb>
to his Room being in the same house this Informant<lb></lb>
Lodges in at which time he had dirty boots on and<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
he believes the same Surtont Coat he now has on, says<lb></lb>
that having heard the same Morning of several Coaches<lb></lb>
being Robbed on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo248">Finchley Common</rs>
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he immediately<lb></lb>
suspected said Smith to be the Person who had Committed<lb></lb>
said Robberies and now he believes it, And this Informant<lb></lb>
Vincent Wcock for himself saith that he also suspects said<lb></lb>
Smith hath been Guilty of several Highway Robberies says<lb></lb>
that one day last Week, this Informant lodging in the<lb></lb>
next room to him, he looked thro' a hole in the Wainscot<lb></lb>
and saw said Smith sitting upon his Bed loading a Brace<lb></lb>
of Pistols and that he gave one of them into the hand<lb></lb>
of a Woman he lives with now present</p>
<p n="706">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45010_date33">5th: day of March 1766</rs>
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<p n="707"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n707-1">Geo Hale</rs>
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<p n="708"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n708-1">Vincent Willio</rs>
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