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<p n="2148"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1632">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2148-1">John<lb></lb>
Baptiste</rs>
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Benedetto taken before me one<lb></lb>
of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ621">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="2149">Who being upon Oath Saith that on<lb></lb>
Saturday night last the 9th. of August inst<lb></lb>
about Nine o Clock he was walking along<lb></lb>
last <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1633">Smithfield</rs>
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in the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1634">Saint John<lb></lb>
Wapping</rs>
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in the sd County when a person now<lb></lb>
present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2149-1">James Clarke</rs>
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violently<lb></lb>
pushed against him seized hold of his Cellar<lb></lb>
and threw him down and then feloniously<lb></lb>
took and Carried away One Silver Watch<lb></lb>
One Metal Chain and Seals the property<lb></lb>
of this Informt. and which he had then at the<lb></lb>
time of this Transaction in his Waistcoat<lb></lb>
Pocket And this Informt. further saith that<lb></lb>
there was Second Person with the sd. Clarke when<lb></lb>
he committed the aforesd. felony (who was a Tall<lb></lb>
Man) and whom this Informt. Suspects and<lb></lb>
verily believes to be the other person now<lb></lb>
present & who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2149-2">Edward Coffee</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and he was also riding and abetting the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2149-3">James<lb></lb>
Clarke</rs>
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in the Offence above<obscured></obscured>
lated but the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2149-4">John Baptiste</rs>
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further upon his Oath<lb></lb>
declares that altho he is not possitive to the<lb></lb>
Person of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2149-5">Edward Coffee</rs>
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yet he is so with<lb></lb>
regard Jos <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2149-6">James Clarke</rs>
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as he never let go<lb></lb>
of his Cellar untill he was secured by the<lb></lb>
Officer and further that the watch Chair<lb></lb>
and Seals now produced are this Informt<lb></lb>
property and were by force and violence<lb></lb>
feloniously taken and Carried away in the<lb></lb>
manner above related and this Informt. saw<lb></lb>
the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2149-7">James Clarke</rs>
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take the watch chain & Seals<lb></lb>
as aforesd. from his Breeches and there them away<lb></lb>
at the time he was secured</p>
<p n="2150">Taken and Sworn before me the 11th of Augst. 1783<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2150-1">P. Greene</rs>
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<p n="2151">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2151-1">John Baptiste</rs>
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Benedetto<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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