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<p n="471"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo398">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n471-1">May Cook</rs>
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a Lodger at Mr. Westons<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo399">the Thirteen Cantoons</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo400">Irongate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo401">Precinct<lb></lb>
of Saint Catherines</rs>
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in the County aforesaid taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date105">18th.. day of February 1785</rs>
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<p n="472">Who being upon Oath says, that about eight oClock<lb></lb>
in the Evening of Wednesday<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the sixth of October last <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-1">Joseph<lb></lb>
Hitchcock</rs>
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alias <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-31">Church</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-2">John Miles</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-3">James Gray</rs>
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now in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo402">Newgate</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-4">Edward Payne</rs>
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since Convicted, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-5">John Dolphin</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo403">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-6">Thomas Brown</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-7">Arthur James</rs>
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on now at large<lb></lb>
met by Agreement at the Ship in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo404">Denmark Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo405">Ratcliffe<lb></lb>
Highway</rs>
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That this Informant brought with him a Boat<lb></lb>
which he put at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo406">King Edward's Stairs</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo407">Denmark Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
That between ten and eleven oClock the same Night the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-8">Joseph Hitchcock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-9">John Miles</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-10">James Gray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-11">Edward Payne</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-12">John<lb></lb>
Dolphin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-13">Thomas Brown</rs>
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, and this Informant sat off in said<lb></lb>
Boat with intent to rob the Ship Elbe, then lying off <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo408">King<lb></lb>
Edwards Stairs</rs>
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) the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-14">Arthur James</rs>
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on having told them to<lb></lb>
go into the Captain's State Room, lift up the Captains Chest and they<lb></lb>
would find in a Scuttoe or Hole a vast Quantity of Dollars<lb></lb>
and desired said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-15">Joseph<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Hitchcock</rs>
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alias Church to take<lb></lb>
care of his Share of them) The they boarded the said Ship<lb></lb>
about twelve oClock at Night and robbed the same of an<lb></lb>
immense Quantity of Dollars and several WatchesThat<lb></lb>
they took said Dollars and Watches to the House of one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-16">Robert<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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(since dead) at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo409">Limehouse</rs>
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, where they shared said<lb></lb>
Dollars and WatchesThat the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-17">Arthur Jameson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n472-18">Joseph<lb></lb>
Hitchcock</rs>
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, and this informants Share's amounted to upwards</p>
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