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<p n="2959"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2244">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The voluntary Information and Evidence of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2959-1">William Harrison</rs>
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taken before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2959-2">John Staples</rs>
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<lb></lb>
one of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ857">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2245">County of Middlesex</rs>
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this 8th.<lb></lb>
day of December in the year of our Lord 1783</p>
<p n="2960">Who saith that last night being sunday night<lb></lb>
between the hours of five and Six in the evening<lb></lb>
being in Company with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2960-1">George Whitten</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
alad or Boy commonly called Matt Mason and passing<lb></lb>
through a Street called Bakers Row the said<lb></lb>
George Whitten seized or took hold of a Girl<lb></lb>
and forced and took from the said Girl (who<lb></lb>
then had on a <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2960-2">Whiteish Gowtte</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Boys Great Coat<del>and or Boys Seat</del>
with Which<lb></lb>
he ran away<del>with</del>
and then he this Informant<lb></lb>
followed him into the next Street when the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2960-3">George Whiffin</rs>
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him the aforesaid Great Coat and<lb></lb>
soon after seeing some person coming up in pursuit<lb></lb>
he this informant ran away and hid the Coat<lb></lb>
said Great Coat among some Drays which stood<lb></lb>
near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2246">Brick Lane</rs>
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.Saith that saw nothing<lb></lb>
more of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2960-4">George Whiffen</rs>
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last<lb></lb>
night no did he of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2960-5">Matt Mason</rs>
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<p n="2961">This Sworn 8th Decr 1783<lb></lb>
Before me</p>
<p n="2962"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2962-1">John Staples</rs>
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</p>
<p n="2963"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2963-1">William Harrison</rs>
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