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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n954-1">Alexander Fenwick</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo745">Tothill Fields Bridwell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n954-2">Thomas Pearce</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n954-3">Robert<lb></lb>
Parsfield</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date169">12th. day of March<lb></lb>
1785</rs>
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<p n="955">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n955-1">Alexander Fenwick</rs>
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says that on Sunday last <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n955-2">William Steward</rs>
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, was committed to this<lb></lb>
Informants custody on suspicion of Felony and Burglary in the<lb></lb>
House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n955-3">Robert Snow</rs>
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Esqr. expressed in his Warrant of Commitment.<lb></lb>
That said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n955-4">William Steward</rs>
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made his Escape from said Prison by<lb></lb>
getting over the Prison Wall by means of a Rope thrown by some<lb></lb>
Person or Persons from Fordyce's Field, on the other side of said<lb></lb>
Wall, into said Prison and further says he doth belive and suspect<lb></lb>
that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n955-5">William Gibbons</rs>
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now present, feloniously aided and assisted<lb></lb>
said Steward, in making his Escape as aforesaid. And said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n955-6">Thomas Pearce</rs>
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says that about two o'Clock in the Afternoon of<lb></lb>
Tuesday last, he saw said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n955-7">William Gibbons</rs>
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go into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo746">Tothill Fields<lb></lb>
Bridewell</rs>
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. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n955-8">Robert Parsfield</rs>
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says that on Tuesday<lb></lb>
last between 4 & 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon he saw said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n955-9">William<lb></lb>
Gibbons</rs>
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walking on the outside of said Prison towards the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo747">Two<lb></lb>
Brewers Alehouse</rs>
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That between 6 and 7 o'Clock he saw said Gibbons<lb></lb>
again standing still in the corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo748">Fordyce's Field</rs>
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, close behind<lb></lb>
said Gaol; in which Field there is no thorough fare</p>
<p n="956">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date170">12th. day of March 1785</rs>
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<p n="957">W Addington</p>
<p n="958"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n958-1">Alexr. Fenwick</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n958-2">Thos. Pearse</rs>
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<p n="959">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n959-1">Robert<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Parsfield</rs>
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