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<p n="1305"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1384">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1305-1">Peter Holdcroft</rs>
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Taken the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date222">13th. Octr</rs>
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. and Sworn the Sixteenth day of the same Month<lb></lb>
before us two of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ545">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1305-48">Peter Holdcroft</rs>
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On his Oath says this Morning about a Quarter of an hour before</p>
<p n="1306">Three in the Morning a Man Came to him as he was in his Watch box in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1385">New Gravel<lb></lb>
Lane</rs>
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and told him there was a great Disturbance in the house of the person present<lb></lb>
who says his Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1306-1">Joseph Young</rs>
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by two Men who had brought an Anchor<lb></lb>
into his said house who he wanted to take the same away and would not<lb></lb>
That he went to the said house where he saw An Anchor which is now produced<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1306-2">Thomas Moody</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1306-3">John<del>Swinton</del>
Swainston</rs>
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and one other man who with the man that<lb></lb>
came to fetch him The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1306-4">Joseph Young</rs>
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said were his Lodgers Says That said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1306-5">Joseph<lb></lb>
Young</rs>
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told him that She said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1306-6">Thomas Moody</rs>
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and John<del>Swinton</del>
Swainston demanded half a Guinea<lb></lb>
of him and he would not give it to them and that said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1306-8">Thomas Moody</rs>
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took him on the<lb></lb>
outside of the door of the said house and told him that was the house meaning the house<lb></lb>
of Young that he was sent to get half a Guinea from M. YoungThat Said Young<lb></lb>
told him to take the said Thomas and John to the Watchhouse when they gave him Charges<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1306-9">Joseph Young</rs>
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That they went quietly to the Watchhouse where he delivered them<lb></lb>
in charge and went with Two other Watchmen and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1306-10">Joseph Young</rs>
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by Order of their Officer to bring the said Anchor<lb></lb>
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to the Watchhouse which the did</p>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1307-1">Peter<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Holdcroft</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="1308">Further says on Crop Examination that he heard from Two<lb></lb>
Women at half past Eleven last night when<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
on his beat near the said house That<lb></lb>
an Anchor had been carryed<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
by where he then stood to the said house by some men and<lb></lb>
that these Two men were near them at the Time</p>
<p n="1309">Sworn again<lb></lb>
The 16th: day of Oct 1786<lb></lb>
Before <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1309-1">John Staples</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1310"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1310-1">Peter Green</rs>
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C</p>
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