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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo461">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Voluntary Information<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n755-1">Benjamin Miller</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
one of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ143">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in & for the<lb></lb>
sd County.</p>
<p n="756">Who being upon Oath saith that on<lb></lb>
Saturday last the 20th of April inst being<lb></lb>
at two Fathers House; a person now present<lb></lb>
<del>who</del>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n756-1">John Bevan</rs>
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came<lb></lb>
and asked him to go on board his Lighter<lb></lb>
or part then lying at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo462">Briants Wharf<lb></lb>
Lower East Smithfield</rs>
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, Where he slept<lb></lb>
with<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the sd. Bevan and a boy now prest.<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n756-2">Robert Clod</rs>
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, that about<lb></lb>
Two oClock on the Sunday Morning the sd Bevan<lb></lb>
awakened this Informt. and ordered from to get<lb></lb>
into a Shift then lying along side the Print<lb></lb>
which he did, as also Bevan, and the sd Bevan<lb></lb>
also ordered <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n756-3">Robert Clod</rs>
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to move the Punt<lb></lb>
down the River to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo463">Union Stairs</rs>
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, and then this<lb></lb>
Informt. & the sd. Bevan went in the Shift<lb></lb>
alongside of a Barge lying at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo464">Black Lyon<lb></lb>
Wharf</rs>
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where the sd Bevan went on board<lb></lb>
and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
took out of the said Barge<lb></lb>
Seventeen Sacks of a Malt which<del>was</del>
were put<lb></lb>
into the Print aforesd. belonging to the said<lb></lb>
Bevan and then the said, Pint<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
they rowed<lb></lb>
down the river to Union Mud Hole</p>
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