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<p n="805"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo271">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n805-1">Lazarus Lee</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n805-2">Catherine</rs>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45013_occ93">wife</rs>
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taken before me this 14th. day of<lb></lb>
October 1769</p>
<p n="806">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-1">Catherine Lee</rs>
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for herself<lb></lb>
says that on Friday the 18th. of August Last between 12 & 1 o'Clock a<lb></lb>
Number of Persons came to the Door of the House in which this Informant<lb></lb>
lived at that Time in Booth street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo272">spital fields</rs>
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, that they attemped to break<lb></lb>
the Door that Mr. Goddard the Land lady of the said house opened the Door<lb></lb>
after they had the Windows, that about ten Men armed with Pistols<lb></lb>
Cultasses and other oftensive Weapone then ordered the said house and<lb></lb>
went up Stairs saying they wanted the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-2">Lazarus Lee</rs>
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, that not finding him up<lb></lb>
Stairs they came down Stairs again and searched in the Collars and other parts<lb></lb>
of the house for the said Lazarus, that during the Time they staid in the house<lb></lb>
they fired off several Pistols and used many threating Expressions<lb></lb>
towards this Informant and her said husband, and said if they caught the<lb></lb>
said Lararus they would kill him and if they caught hom afterwards they<lb></lb>
would hang him in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo273">Spital fields Market</rs>
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, and the said Lararus Lee<lb></lb>
for himself says that on the said night as he this Informant was<lb></lb>
coming home from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo274">Queen's head</rs>
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in Cristin Street he was met in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo275">Brick Lane</rs>
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by a number of persons armed with Pistols Cutlaper and<lb></lb>
other offenside Weapon that one of the said Persons to wit <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-3">William Duff</rs>
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<lb></lb>
immediately wounded this Informant on the head with a Cutlass that he this<lb></lb>
Informant also received several other Wounds from the said persons by Pistols<lb></lb>
and Cutlasses and that they left him saying he<del>had</del>
was now done for,<lb></lb>
says that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-4">William Duff</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-5">Michael Moore</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-6">Andrew Mahoney</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-7">Robert Campbell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-8">Patrick Pickle</rs>
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, Joseph Colemant & <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-9">David Collins</rs>
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were some of the persons<lb></lb>
who were so armed as aforesaid with Pistols and Cultases and wounded this<lb></lb>
Informant, and this Informant Catharine Lee for hereself says that<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-10">William Duff</rs>
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, Miche Moore <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-11">Robert Campbell</rs>
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and Andrew Matoney<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n806-12">David Collins</rs>
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are some of the persons who so forsibly came into<lb></lb>
her house as aforesaid with Pistols cutlasses and other offenwise Weapons<lb></lb>
and threatmend this Informant and her husband</p>
<p n="807">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
October 14. 1769}<lb></lb>
W Kelyngs</p>
<p n="808">Lazs. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n808-1">Lee<lb></lb>
Catherine</rs>
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