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<p n="1157"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo946">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1157-1">John Thornton</rs>
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<del>and</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1157-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Cropp</rs>
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and John ther<obscured></obscured>
mount taken on Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1157-3">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ372">Esqr</rs>
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one<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ373">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for<lb></lb>
the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date211">16th day of April 1785</rs>
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<p n="1158">Who being on their Oaths Say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1158-1">John Thornton</rs>
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. for himself saith that last Night<lb></lb>
about the Hour of Eleven and Alarm was made<lb></lb>
that the Callies Grounds of His Masters Messrs<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1158-45">Richd Adams</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1158-2">Samuel Lay</rs>
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bying at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo947">Old Ford</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said County were Robbed on which he this<lb></lb>
Informant together with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1158-3">Richd Adams</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the other Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1158-4">Thomas Cropp</rs>
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and others went in<lb></lb>
pursuit of the Offenders until between the House<lb></lb>
of two and three this Morning when being<lb></lb>
<del>near</del>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo948">white post Lane</rs>
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near and Ford the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1158-5">Richard Adams</rs>
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hearing a Noise Ordered them<lb></lb>
to be Silent<del>when</del>
Saith that presently after<lb></lb>
he san the two persons now present who say<lb></lb>
their Names are <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1158-6">Abraham Gorden</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1158-7">Thomas<lb></lb>
Goldfinch</rs>
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come over a Stile (near to the place<lb></lb>
where this Informant and the other) Stood<lb></lb>
with Bundles on their Heads<del>wh</del>
Saith that<lb></lb>
on<obscured></obscured>
ing this Informant and the said other<lb></lb>
pers<obscured></obscured>
the<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1158-8">abraham Gorden</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
Thomas Goldfn<obscured></obscured>
threw down their<lb></lb>
Bune<obscured></obscured>
and ran away further Saith<lb></lb>
that at the same time he Saw the other<lb></lb>
Person now present who says his Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1158-9">Samuel Roberts</rs>
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on the other side<lb></lb>
of the said Still with a Bundle on his<lb></lb>
Head which he also at fall and ran off</p>
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