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The Information of
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taken before me this 14th. day of
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November 1774
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Who being upon Oath says that about one or two o'Clock in the
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Night between Friday the 4th. & Saturday the 5th. Instant he
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took a Hackney Coach at
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, that near the Sign of the Water works
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on the
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this Informant ordered the Driver to stop
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which he accordingly did and this Informant got out of the
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Coach, that the Driver demanded five Shillings as his fare
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which this Informant refused to pay but gave him three
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Shillings, that immediately a person whom this Informant
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had not sure before jumped from the Boot of the Coach
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and seized this Informant by the Collar, that the Driver
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of the said Coach then knocked this Informant down and
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the said two persons robbed this Informant of his Metal
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Watch and a few Shillings in Money, that when this Informant
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got out of the said Coach the Driver doubed over the Number with
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Dirt so that this Informant could not read it, and
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immediately after the said Robbery both the said Persons
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got upon the Coach Box and drove away towards London
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And this Informant further says that a person now present
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who calls himself
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William Clifton
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is one of the persons who
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robbed this Informant as aforesaid to wit the person who
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Jumped from the Boot of the Coach when the Driver
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Sworn before me this
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14th day of Novemr. 1774}
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