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<p n="1355"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo918">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1355-1">Sarah Sanderson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ321">Spinster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ322">Servant</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1355-2">William Martin</rs>
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Trinder<lb></lb>
of Stepney Square in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ323">Doctor<lb></lb>
of Physick</rs>
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Taken this Sixth day of April<lb></lb>
1784 before us two of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ324">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County.</p>
<p n="1356">Who being on her Oath Saith that as she was going<lb></lb>
from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo919">Farmers street Shadwell</rs>
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to her Masters house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo920">Stepney<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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aforesaid about Ten Minutes after seven O Clock in<lb></lb>
the Evening of Friday the second day of April Instant<lb></lb>
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in going through the Bar at the upper end of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo921">Stepney<lb></lb>
Causeway</rs>
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she saw two men at a considerable distance from the said<lb></lb>
Bar and near the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo922">Green Dragon at Stepney</rs>
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. and which<lb></lb>
two men were coming towards her. That she not considering<lb></lb>
the said two Men as any other than working persons<lb></lb>
was going a <obscured></obscured>
Passage by the Parts that goes from<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo923">Stepney Causeway</rs>
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to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo924">Green Dragon</rs>
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aforesaid when<lb></lb>
going to pass them one of the said two men and who is<lb></lb>
now here present and calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1356-1">Joseph Williams</rs>
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<lb></lb>
violently shewed her against the Pales, put his hand<lb></lb>
across her Month to prevent her from speaking or calling<lb></lb>
out and said to Informant Damn you deliver what<lb></lb>
money you have got if you Squint or look I will blow<lb></lb>
your Brains out That the other man came up to her<lb></lb>
with a Cutlass in his hand and which Cutlass he then<lb></lb>
laid on the Ground and began to search her pocket (she having<lb></lb>
but one which was on<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
her right side) from whence he<lb></lb>
took one black Mode Cloak which being pinned he unpinned<lb></lb>
and threw over his left Arm. That he then rifled her<lb></lb>
Pocket again and took from thence One half Guinea in Gold<lb></lb>
four halfpence one Metal Seal Engraved IB One Compositior<lb></lb>
Stone whereon was Engraved the Figure of an Anchor and Hope</p>
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