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<p n="111"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo80">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n111-1">John Drain</rs>
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-<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n111-2">Benjamin Taylor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n111-3">John Cleverley</rs>
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taken before me this 22d..<lb></lb>
day of December 1783.</p>
<p n="112">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n112-1">John Drain</rs>
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says that as<lb></lb>
he was going up Constitution Hills in Saint James's Park last night<lb></lb>
at half past 6 o'Clock, a Person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n112-2">William Bell</rs>
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(and another Man) met him both of whom took told<lb></lb>
of him and asked him "What he had get there" meaning the<lb></lb>
Bernetts now producedInformant answered them that He had<lb></lb>
nothing but the Bundle and what else he had they were<lb></lb>
Welcome to They asked him then whether he had any Money,<lb></lb>
Informant reptied No, and after Searching him, they gave him<lb></lb>
a Push and told him "to go about his Business or they would<lb></lb>
cut his Head off" That they Robbed this Informant of a Bundle<lb></lb>
now produced containing two Shirts, two pair of Stockings, two<lb></lb>
Stocks, two Handkerchiefs, one Pillow beer and a Waistcoat and<lb></lb>
further Says that the said Bell was instantly pursued and taken<lb></lb>
by the Queens palace, near which place this Informant found<lb></lb>
his Bundle. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n112-3">Benjamin Taylor</rs>
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says that upon<lb></lb>
hearing the Cry of Stop Thief in the Park at this time, he saw the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n112-4">William Bell</rs>
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running with a Bundle in his left hand, and<lb></lb>
which he knew away just before this Informant had secured<lb></lb>
him. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n112-5">John Cleverley</rs>
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Says that he was with<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n112-6">Benjamin Taylor</rs>
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at this time and assisted him in Securing<lb></lb>
said Bell, and saw said Bell throw away the Bundle.</p>
<p n="113">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
22nd. day of Decemr 1783}</p>
<p n="114"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n114-1">John Drane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
B Taylor<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n114-2">John Cleverly</rs>
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</p>
<p n="115"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n115-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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