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<p n="215"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo157">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n215-1">Peter Giles</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo158">Park Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ36">Gentleman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n215-2">Samuel Mayner</rs>
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taken before me this 30th.. day<lb></lb>
of January 1784.</p>
<p n="216">Who on their Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n216-1">Peter Giles</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
about 8 o' Clock in the Evening of Wednesday was sevenight, he was<lb></lb>
robbed in the Bath Post Coach, near the four mile Stone on the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo159">Brentford</rs>
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read, of a brass Shilling resembling that now produceed,<lb></lb>
and about 7 shillings besidesby a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ37">singh Highwayman</rs>
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, mounted<lb></lb>
on a lowish bay Horse or Mare, with a white face and a short<lb></lb>
swist tailThat the said Highwayman was dressed in a light<lb></lb>
coloured Great Coat and a round Hat. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n216-2">Samuel<lb></lb>
Mayner</rs>
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says that having heard of the said Robbery at Ken-<lb></lb>
sington Turnpike, he went to the Turnpike at the Gravel Pits<lb></lb>
where about ten o'Clock, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n216-3">John Wood</rs>
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now present came up on<lb></lb>
horseback, carrying his Great Coat now produced in his hands<lb></lb>
in which were a brace of Pistols loaded. That Informant secured<lb></lb>
said Wood and in his<del>left hand</del>
Breeches pocket found the<lb></lb>
brass Shilling now producedAnd further says that the Horse<lb></lb>
on which said Wood then rode was a low bay Horse, with<lb></lb>
a White face and a short swish tail.</p>
<p n="217">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
30th day of Janry.. 1784}</p>
<p n="218"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n218-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="219"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n219-1">Peter Giles</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n219-2">Saml. Mayner</rs>
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