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<p n="491"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo376">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n491-1">John Wrench</rs>
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Servant to<lb></lb>
Mr. Hill of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo377">Aldenham</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo378">Elstree in the<lb></lb>
County of Herts</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n491-2">Thomas Price</rs>
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Servant to<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n491-3">William Reeves</rs>
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of the Cock in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo379">Tottenham<lb></lb>
Court Road</rs>
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Stable Keeper taken before and<lb></lb>
this 25th. day of February 1783</p>
<p n="492">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n492-1">John Wrench</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that about three o Clock in the morning of Thursday the 13th. of<lb></lb>
February instant, as he was driving his Masters Cart with<lb></lb>
three Horses, and a fourth a black Parey, now produced tied<lb></lb>
to the middle Horse along the Edgward Road he was<lb></lb>
stopped by a Man on foot who prevented a Weapon to this<lb></lb>
Informant which appeared to be a Pistol and demanded<lb></lb>
the said black Poney, which he untied from the other<lb></lb>
Horses and rode away withAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n492-2">Thomas Price</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n492-3">Michael<lb></lb>
Knowland</rs>
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brought to this Informants said Masters Staples<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo380">Tottenham Court Road</rs>
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aforesaid abt. half past<lb></lb>
eleven o Clock in the Night of Thursday the said 13th. day<lb></lb>
of February instant the said black Poney and put him up there</p>
<p n="493">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
25th. day of Febry: 1783}</p>
<p n="494">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n494-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Wrench</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="495">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n495-1">Thomas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Price</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="496">M Addington</p>
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