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<p n="225"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo164">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n225-1">John Milford</rs>
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and Prickard Milford<lb></lb>
of the City of Exeter in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo165">County of Devon</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ38">Gentlemen</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n225-2">Richard Hambly</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo166">Saint Martins</rs>
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Lane <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ39">Victualler</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n225-3">Samuel Mayner</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n225-4">Joseph Cridland</rs>
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Patrole-taken<lb></lb>
before me this 22nd.. day of January 1784.</p>
<p n="226">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n226-1">John Milford</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
last night between 7 and 8 o'Clock, in or near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo167">Hammersmith Town</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Bath post Coach, he was robbed by a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ40">single Highwayman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of about twenty shillings in Silver, amongst which were either<lb></lb>
4 or 5 Half Crown piecesand this Informant further says he<lb></lb>
doth verily believe that a person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n226-2">John Wood</rs>
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, is the Highwayman who robbed him as<lb></lb>
aforesaid; and doth also believe that on Horse now produced,<lb></lb>
is the Horse on which said Wood rode at the time of the<lb></lb>
Robbery. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n226-3">Richard Milford</rs>
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says that he this<lb></lb>
Informant was robbed at the same time with his Brother, of<lb></lb>
a Guinea and eleven shillings in silver, amongst which was<lb></lb>
an Half Crown piece and doth verily believe that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n226-4">John<lb></lb>
Wood</rs>
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in the person who robbed him, and that the Horse now<lb></lb>
produced is the Horse on which he rodeAnd the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n226-5">Richard Hambly</rs>
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says that yesterday morning about 9 o'Clock the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n226-6">John Wood</rs>
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came to this Informant's horse and asked if he (Wood<lb></lb>
could have a Horse to ride to Kingston to Dinner, to whom<lb></lb>
this Informant replied in the affirmativeThat this Informant accor-<lb></lb>
-dingly lent said Wood the Horse now produced, on which said Wood<lb></lb>
left this Informant's house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo168">Saint Martins</rs>
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Lane about 11 o'Clock<lb></lb>
yesterday morning. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n226-7">Samuel Mayner</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
hearing last Night of Messrs.. Milford's being robbed as aforesaid, this<lb></lb>
Informant crossed from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo169">Hammersmith</rs>
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road to the Turnpike<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo170">Kensington Gravel pits</rs>
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, and after staying there about three</p>
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