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The Information of
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Justices of the peace
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On his Oath says this Morning about a Quarter of an hour before
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who says his Name is
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by two Men who had brought an Anchor
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John
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and one other man who with the man that
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Joseph Young
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said were his Lodgers Says That said
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Joseph
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told him that She said
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and John
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Swinton
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Swainston demanded half a Guinea
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of him and he would not give it to them and that said
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took him on the
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outside of the door of the said house and told him that was the house meaning the house
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of Young that he was sent to get half a Guinea from M. YoungThat Said Young
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told him to take the said Thomas and John to the Watchhouse when they gave him Charges
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That they went quietly to the Watchhouse where he delivered them
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by Order of their Officer to bring the said Anchor
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to the Watchhouse which the did
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Peter
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Holdcroft
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Mark
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Further says on Crop Examination that he heard from Two
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Women at half past Eleven last night when
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that these Two men were near them at the Time
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Sworn again
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The 16th: day of Oct 1786
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Before
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C
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