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<p n="1675"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1433">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
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The Voluntary Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1675-1">John<lb></lb>
Say</rs>
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taken on Oath the seventh day of<lb></lb>
October 1785 before me one of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ548">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1434">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1676">Who on his Oath Saith That on a Saturday night<lb></lb>
which was on the first night of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1435">Bartholomew fair</rs>
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he last then being a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ549">Hackney Coachman</rs>
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on the Stand in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1436">Cornhill</rs>
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London a Man came to him and ordered<lb></lb>
him to drive to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1437">Old Broad Street</rs>
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and the Man got on<lb></lb>
the Coach Box with this Examinant and this<lb></lb>
Examinant stopt the Coach by the Order of the said<lb></lb>
Man at a Fruiteres shop the Corner of a Court<lb></lb>
near the Church in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1438">Broad street</rs>
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aforesaid, That<lb></lb>
the said Man got off the Box went to the opposite<lb></lb>
side of the way near the Rails of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1439">Excise<lb></lb>
Office</rs>
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and there spoke to two men and then returned<lb></lb>
to this Examinant and bid him follow him<lb></lb>
with his Coach which this Examinant did into<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1440">Winchester street</rs>
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, and there stopt about four<lb></lb>
doors down the street on the left hand from<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1441">Broad street</rs>
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and this Examinant was then<lb></lb>
directed by the said man to stay there till he returned</p>
<p n="1677">That in about Ten Minutes<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
after said Man<lb></lb>
with two other came to him and brought with<lb></lb>
then a large Bale or something like it and<lb></lb>
opened the off door of the Coach and put the Bale<lb></lb>
in, And the man whom had hired this Examinant<lb></lb>
got on the Coach Box with him, and the other<lb></lb>
we men got into the Coach and shut the Coach<lb></lb>
door themselves at the same time refusing to<lb></lb>
let this Examinant shut the Coach door, And<lb></lb>
the man on the Box Directed this Examinant<lb></lb>
to drive down <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1442">Winchester Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1443">London Wall</rs>
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, up <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1444">Coleman Street</rs>
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into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1445">Cheapside</rs>
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, down <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1446">Queen street</rs>
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into<lb></lb>
Thomas Shod to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1447">the Sign of the White Bear</rs>
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