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<p n="637">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n637-1">Martha Keppel</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n637-2">James Bays</rs>
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Taken before me one<lb></lb>
of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45021_occ97">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the said County</p>
<p n="638">Who Severally being upon Oath Say and First this<lb></lb>
Informant Martha Capel for herself Saith that about<lb></lb>
half past two o'Clock this Morning she was passing by<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo240">Bull and Gate Inn</rs>
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in Holborn when she was<lb></lb>
Met by two persons who are now present who call themselves<lb></lb>
John Walworth and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n638-1">Christopher Plumley</rs>
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who were both<lb></lb>
in Company together and Saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n638-2">John<lb></lb>
Walworth</rs>
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with great Violence tore her Apron from her<lb></lb>
side which is now here produced and saith that the said Apron is her property and Saith that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n638-3">Christopher Plumley</rs>
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at the time the said Other person<lb></lb>
so took<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Apron as aforesaid knocked her down will<lb></lb>
Great Violence and they both imediately ran away and the<lb></lb>
said James Bays for himself saith that he is a patrole of<lb></lb>
the Parish of Saint Giles and about the time above mentioned<lb></lb>
Saw the said two persons now here Ran very fast by him<lb></lb>
and he Suspecting they had been doing wrong pursued<lb></lb>
them when he saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n638-4">John Walworth</rs>
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East the Apron<lb></lb>
from him which was upwards of two hundred yards from<lb></lb>
the place where the said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Apron Was so taken from her</p>
<p n="639">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
8th. day of October 1774}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n639-1">Jno. Lane</rs>
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<p n="640">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n640-1">Martha<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Keppel</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n640-2">James Bayes</rs>
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