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<p n="2354"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1789">Middlesex</rs>
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THE Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2354-1">John Skillings</rs>
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a Lodger at Mrs. Nicholls's<lb></lb>
No. 8 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1790">Upper Well Alley</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint John of Wapping<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ674">Manner</rs>
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Taken this 13th. Day of September 1783 before me One<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County </p>
<p n="2355"> Who being upon Oath saith that on Saturday night last about Ten O Clock<lb></lb>
being then in the house of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2355-1">Mary Atwood</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1791">New Gravel<lb></lb>
Lane Shadwell</rs>
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who left him in Care of the same while she<lb></lb>
went to the next door. Informant being then in the<lb></lb>
Back<del>wards</del>
Room of the said House (Where also was one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2355-2">Charloth Tucker</rs>
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a Prisoner now here present) walking Fore<lb></lb>
and Agt the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2355-3">Charlotte Tucker</rs>
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abused him very<lb></lb>
Grossly, and resing from the Chair on which she was then<lb></lb>
Sitting was making towards this Informant when he gave<lb></lb>
her a Slight push from him Whereupon she immediately<lb></lb>
called out Murder in Consequence of which <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2355-4">John Newman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
other prisoner now here also present came from the<lb></lb>
Fare Room of the said House where he then was unknown<lb></lb>
to Informant Immediately threw him on the Bed stead with<lb></lb>
great Violence and forcibly Kept him down while<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2355-5">Charlotte Tucker</rs>
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feloniously look out of his<lb></lb>
Pocket One Silk Purse Containing Three Guineas his<lb></lb>
property and which being done they was up Stairs<lb></lb>
That Informant then gave Charge of them to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2355-6">Thomas<lb></lb>
Cole</rs>
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A <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ675">Headborough</rs>
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of the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell<lb></lb>
aforesaid but has not Since received the said Property<lb></lb>
or any Part thereof nor the Purse</p>
<p n="2356"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1792">Sworn at Shadwell</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said County this 15th day of<lb></lb>
September 1783 before me}</p>
<p n="2357"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2357-1">P Greene</rs>
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<p n="2358">his<lb></lb>
John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Skillings<lb></lb>
Marks</p>
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