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<p n="1781"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1881">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1781-1">Robert Drysdale</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me one of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ739">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="1782">Who being upon Oath saith that on the Tenth of<lb></lb>
September instant being at a Public House known<lb></lb>
by <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1882">the Sign of the White Swan</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1883">upper East Smithfield</rs>
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where he met with there Persons now present who call<lb></lb>
themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-1">John Lewis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-2">Elizabeth Cox</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-3">Sarah Tyler</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that they Stayed in the said House together about half an<lb></lb>
hour and then they went away all together to<del>saw</del>
two other<lb></lb>
Public House and then it was proposed by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-4">John Lewis</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
go to the Womens Lodgings in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1884">Back Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1885">Saint George<lb></lb>
Middx</rs>
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which they did and when they came there this Informt<lb></lb>
and the abovenamed <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-5">Elizabeth Cox</rs>
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went together privately<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-6">John Lewis</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-7">Sarah Tyler</rs>
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in another Room<lb></lb>
that this Informt. had not been long in Company with the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-8">Elizabeth Cox</rs>
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when he detected the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-9">Elizabeth Cox</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
Robbing him of a Quantity of half pence he had in his<lb></lb>
Pocket that he Immediately Seized hold of her and insisted<lb></lb>
to have his Money returned when she violently Screamed<lb></lb>
and the aforesd <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-10">John Lewis</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-11">Sarah Tyler</rs>
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came into<lb></lb>
the Room and he violently seized hold of this Informt. &<lb></lb>
rescued the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-12">Elizabeth Cox</rs>
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from him and then they<lb></lb>
all run away together that as soon as they were gone<lb></lb>
he found that not only his Money but his Watch Chain<lb></lb>
and Seal had been feloniously taken and Carried away<lb></lb>
And this Informant further upon his Oath declare<lb></lb>
that he is positive that the said<del> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-13">John Lewis</rs>
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</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-14">Elizabeth Cox</rs>
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<lb></lb>
is the person who robbed him as aforesd. and that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-15">John Lewis</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1782-16">Sarah Tyler</rs>
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were aiding abetting<lb></lb>
and Assisting in the said Felony as had it not have been<lb></lb>
for the said Lewis and Tyler's coming into the Room he<lb></lb>
shou'd have secured the said Cox with his property upon he</p>
<p n="1783">Taken and Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date310">Eleventh of Septemr. 1786</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1783-1">Robt. Smith</rs>
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<p n="1784"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1784-1">Robert Drysdale</rs>
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