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<p n="93"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo64">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n93-1">John Morant</rs>
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Esqr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n93-2">Joseph Read</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n93-3">William Briggs</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n93-4">William Evans</rs>
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<del>and</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n93-5">Joshua Sands</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n93-6">Benjamin Golley</rs>
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taken before me this 21st.. Day of January 1782.</p>
<p n="94">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n94-1">JohnMorant</rs>
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says that on Tuesday<lb></lb>
Evening last about ½ past 5 o'Clock, he was robbed by two Highwaymen<lb></lb>
a little the other side of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo65">Tyburn turnpike</rs>
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, towards Bays water, of<lb></lb>
two Guineas, some silver and Half pence, a Pocket Book containing<lb></lb>
a Draft for £130 and an antique Ring & both of whom afterwards<lb></lb>
Rode towards Bays water. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n94-2">Joseph Read</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
he was walking towards Bays water at this time, saw the said<lb></lb>
Highway men stop the Chaire (and after Robbing the Person<lb></lb>
therein) ride off towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo66">Bayswater</rs>
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That when he came to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo67">Bayswater</rs>
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he found a Horse lying on the Ground much have to<lb></lb>
which Horse he verify believes was rode by one of the said<lb></lb>
Highwaymen and further says he is very sure that no Horse<lb></lb>
or Horsemen passed him from the time of the Robbery to the<lb></lb>
time of his finding the Horse on the ground, but the two<lb></lb>
Highwaymen that robbed the Chaire as aforesaid, and that<lb></lb>
he verify believes <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n94-3">Edward Wilkins</rs>
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now present to be one<lb></lb>
of the said Highwaymen. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n94-4">William Briggs</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that about a quarter before six o'Clock that Evening<lb></lb>
He and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n94-5">William Briggs</rs>
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his Son were at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo68">Bayswater</rs>
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in a Cart,<lb></lb>
that two Men on her reback who were riding full speed met<lb></lb>
him, one of whom rode against his Cart, threw his Horse<lb></lb>
down and Himself off, and was much hurt. And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n94-6">William Evans</rs>
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says that he saw the said Man and his Horse<lb></lb>
fall from riding against the Cart that he picked the said<lb></lb>
Man up who was <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n94-7">Edward Wilkins</rs>
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now present and who appeared</p>
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