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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1303-1">John Bryan</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo845">White Hart</rs>
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Yard<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo846">Brooks Market</rs>
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taken this Thirteenth day of June 1781<lb></lb>
Who upon his Oath saith that on Sunday Night Last the<lb></lb>
Tenth day of June Instant as he was coming home to his<lb></lb>
Lodging at about<del>the</del>
a quarter after Nine O'Clock that at<lb></lb>
the End of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo847">Fleet Market</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo848">near Holborn Bridge</rs>
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he was<lb></lb>
Stop't by several persons one of which Struck him with<lb></lb>
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his Elbow and pushed him of the pavement into<lb></lb>
the Middle of the Street and that he came back into the<lb></lb>
same place and asked the said Persons what Reason they<lb></lb>
had to Molest him and if he had not as much Liberty<lb></lb>
to walk the Street as they had one of which Persons<lb></lb>
who he hath now seen and who call himself by the Name<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1303-2">John Lumley</rs>
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Immediately Struck him on his Head<lb></lb>
with a Stick by which Blow he was Cut and Wounded<lb></lb>
and fell down he then got up and look hold of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1303-3">John Lumley</rs>
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who he calls the Young fellow in the<lb></lb>
Brown and that he called out Murder several times<lb></lb>
and that then the other persons came and Struck and<lb></lb>
Beat him Likewise that he then Ran away as fast<lb></lb>
as he could thro. <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo849">field Lane</rs>
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and that he Ran into the<lb></lb>
House of one Mc. Carty in a Court in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo850">Saffron Hill</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and Bolted the Door and that the said Persons<lb></lb>
followed him and pushed against at the Door but<lb></lb>
Could not get it open but that they Broke half the<lb></lb>
Door with Stones or Brick Batts and that they<lb></lb>
Broke the Windows of the said House and then they<lb></lb>
got in at the Door which they Broke as aforesaid<lb></lb>
and that he got into the Kitchen of the said House<lb></lb>
and that the said Persons followed him into the</p>
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