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<p n="1233"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo452">Middlesex</rs>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1233-1">Mary Whiffer</rs>
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taken in<lb></lb>
Writing and upon Oath before no two<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45013_occ145">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said<lb></lb>
County the 14th: day of Novemr: 1769</p>
<p n="1234">This Examinant Saith that on or about the 26th: day of<lb></lb>
September last this Examinant at that time being<lb></lb>
in the Dwelling House of one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1234-1">Robert Cromwell</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo453">Moor fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo454">Parish of Shoreditch</rs>
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in the said County<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45013_occ146">Silk Weaver</rs>
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She this Examinant about one o'Clock in the Morning hearing a Noise in the Street looked out of Window<lb></lb>
in the said House, and saw a Great Number of persons<lb></lb>
assembled before she said House armed with Pistol<lb></lb>
Cut lasses and other offensive Weapons and in a few<lb></lb>
minutes some of the said persons attempted to break<lb></lb>
open the Window Shutter of the Parlour which this<lb></lb>
Examinant believes they could not the same being fastned<lb></lb>
within by an Iron Bar, and thereupon some of the<lb></lb>
said person came to the Door of the said Dwelling<lb></lb>
House, and broke open the same, and came into<lb></lb>
the said House, and then broke Down another Door<lb></lb>
leading into a Warehouse in the said Dwelling House<lb></lb>
and this Examinant saith that the Several person or<lb></lb>
Mary of them did several Times five Pistols or Guns<lb></lb>
in the said House and that<obscured></obscured>
Several other of the<lb></lb>
said persons who Stood without the Door did also fire<lb></lb>
Several Times at the Windows of the said House<lb></lb>
And this Examinant further saith that one of the said<lb></lb>
persons so assembled as aforesaid was then and Stitt, is well<lb></lb>
known to this Examinant by the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1234-2">John Carmichael</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and that she saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1234-3">John Carmichael</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
stand and hold in his Hand a Pistol or Small Gun<lb></lb>
which said Pistol or small Gun the said Carmichael<lb></lb>
presented and held Close to the head of a Man whom<lb></lb>
this Examinant believes was a Watchman, and this<lb></lb>
Examinant out saith that she heard the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n1234-4">John<lb></lb>
Carmichael</rs>
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say to the said Man Blast your Eyes</p>
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