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<p n="44"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo38">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n44-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
King</rs>
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taken before me one of<lb></lb>
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace<lb></lb>
for the said County</p>
<p n="45">Who being upon Oath saith that he lives at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo39">Battle Bridge</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Pancras<lb></lb>
That about Eight o Clock on Sunday Night last<lb></lb>
as he was going from Town to his House at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo40">Battle Bridge</rs>
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opposite to Rhodes's Fann in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo41">Grays Inn Lane</rs>
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he was Attacked by the three<lb></lb>
Persons now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n45-1">John<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n45-2">Thomas Free</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n45-3">Thomas Pinckston</rs>
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two<lb></lb>
of them presented pistols and the other a Dagger<lb></lb>
and demanded this Informant Money twice but<lb></lb>
he told them he was a Poor Man & had but very<lb></lb>
trifling about him when one of them searched<lb></lb>
his Pockets but found nothing they then bid him<lb></lb>
go along and this Informant went home & then<lb></lb>
went towards Form this Informant is certain<lb></lb>
that the said John Brown Thos. Free &<lb></lb>
Thomas Pinckston are the three persons who<lb></lb>
Attacked & Attempted to Rob him at the time<lb></lb>
& Place above described</p>
<p n="46">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45023_date9">29th. Day of December 1774</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n46-1">Jno. Barnfather</rs>
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</p>
<p n="47">his<lb></lb>
Thomas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
King<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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