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20th. day
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Who being upon Oath say, and first the said
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says that between 7 & 8 o'Clock in the Evening of the 19th
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of September last he with his Wife were robbed between
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of a Guinea
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in gold and some Silver
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by two Highwaymen-That one of them was a tall thin Man
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very much in Appearance like
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now present, whose
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Voice very much resembles the tall Highwayman who robbed
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him but that he cannot be positive as to his person-The
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Thomas Gunnell
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for himself saith that he drove Mr. and
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Mr. Holbrook at this time when they were robbed by two
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Highwaymen at Ealing - That he looked at one of said
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Highwaymen during the whole time of the Robbery and
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took particular Notice of him-That from the Appearance
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all together of
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now present together with
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his Voice he doth suspect and verily believe said Flather
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to be one of said HIghwaymen
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Sworn before me this
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20th. day of October 1786}
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N Bonds.
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his
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