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<p n="1508"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo687">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1508-1">Thomas Dicher</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this 14th. day of<lb></lb>
November 1774</p>
<p n="1509">Who being upon Oath says that about one or two o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
Night between Friday the 4th. & Saturday the 5th. Instant he<lb></lb>
took a Hackney Coach at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo688">Charles Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo689">Covent Garden</rs>
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and ordered<lb></lb>
the Driver to go to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo690">Chelsea</rs>
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, that near the Sign of the Water works<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo691">Chelsea Road</rs>
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this Informant ordered the Driver to stop<lb></lb>
which he accordingly did and this Informant got out of the<lb></lb>
Coach, that the Driver demanded five Shillings as his fare<lb></lb>
which this Informant refused to pay but gave him three<lb></lb>
Shillings, that immediately a person whom this Informant<lb></lb>
had not sure before jumped from the Boot of the Coach<lb></lb>
and seized this Informant by the Collar, that the Driver<lb></lb>
of the said Coach then knocked this Informant down and<lb></lb>
the said two persons robbed this Informant of his Metal<lb></lb>
Watch and a few Shillings in Money, that when this Informant<lb></lb>
got out of the said Coach the Driver doubed over the Number with<lb></lb>
Dirt so that this Informant could not read it, and<lb></lb>
immediately after the said Robbery both the said Persons<lb></lb>
got upon the Coach Box and drove away towards London<lb></lb>
And this Informant further says that a person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1509-1">William Clifton</rs>
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is one of the persons who<lb></lb>
robbed this Informant as aforesaid to wit the person who<lb></lb>
Jumped from the Boot of the Coach when the Driver<lb></lb>
seized hold of this Informant as aforesaid</p>
<p n="1510">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
14th day of Novemr. 1774}</p>
<p n="1511"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n1511-1">Thos Dicker</rs>
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