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says that on the 16th. of July last about nine o'Clock
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Informant and the said Humphry Cornwall Woolrych
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in a single Horse Chaise
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he was stopped by two Highwaymen about 100 Yards on
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this side Fulham Town and robbed of a Guinea and some
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silver and further says he is very sure that a person now
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Woolrych says that
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at the time he
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was robbed and was himself also robbed by the same
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two Highwaymen of some silver and further says that
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to be one
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Sworn before me this
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28th. day of August 1782}
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