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<p n="1432"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo645">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1432-1">Samuel Bovingdon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before Ux three of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45021_occ255">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="1433">Who being upon Oath saith that he is one of<lb></lb>
the Watchmen of the Parish of Saint Mary<lb></lb>
Lets one that being upon his Duty as Watchman<lb></lb>
in Mortimer Street in the said Parish at three<lb></lb>
o Clock on Monday Morning last at about twenty<lb></lb>
Yards distants from him this Informant saw<lb></lb>
Three<del>Men</del>
persons now present who call themselves<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1433-1">John Dale</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1433-2">Robert Street</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1433-3">John Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and he perceived that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1433-4">Robert Street</rs>
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had a Seal<lb></lb>
upon his Back upon which this Informant went<lb></lb>
up and stop't the said three persons and upon<lb></lb>
looking at the Bag<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
saw something at the<lb></lb>
and of it upon which he rang his Hattle and<lb></lb>
one of his Brother <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45021_occ256">Watchmen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1433-5">Thomas Darby</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came up to him this Informant took Smith<lb></lb>
into Custody and Derby took the said Street<lb></lb>
Dale abused this Informant & Darly for taking<lb></lb>
them into Custody and afterwards offered them<lb></lb>
a pot of Beer or Sixpence to let them go this<lb></lb>
Informant told him they would not be Boiled<lb></lb>
that in Conveying the said Robt Street & Smith<lb></lb>
to the Watch house Street said if he must go<lb></lb>
there he would not carry it (meaning the Load<lb></lb>
upon his Back) any further he then set it down<lb></lb>
and one Mr. Clue another Watchman took it<lb></lb>
up and Carried it to the Watch house says that<lb></lb>
when they came to the Watch house the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Engine<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
now produced was taken upon the<lb></lb>
person of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1433-6">Robert Street</rs>
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, when</p>
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