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<p n="2570"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2732">Middlesex</rs>
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The several Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2570-1">Jacob Freeman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2570-2">Isaac Hunt</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2570-3">George Parsons</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2570-4">Abraham<lb></lb>
Silk</rs>
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Touching the Murder of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2570-5">Duncan<lb></lb>
Robinson</rs>
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deceased Taken the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date445">Eighth day of<lb></lb>
December 1786</rs>
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<p n="2571">Who upon their Oaths severally say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2571-1">Jacob Freeman</rs>
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for himself Saith That he is very well<lb></lb>
acquainted with the person of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2571-2">Richard Payne</rs>
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now in Custody<lb></lb>
and who Stands Charged by the Coroners Inquest with the<lb></lb>
Wilful Murder of the said Duncan Robinson<lb></lb>
That he received Information yesterday That the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2571-3">Richard Payne</rs>
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had Enlisted himself for an East India<lb></lb>
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Whereupon he went to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2733">India House</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
requested the Books might be searched and was informed<lb></lb>
That no person of that Name was on the Books That he<lb></lb>
then went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2734">the Swan Alehouse</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2735">Rosemary Lane</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
Rendesvoige for Enlisting East India Soldiers at which<lb></lb>
place he was informed the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2571-4">Richard Payne</rs>
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had Enlisted<lb></lb>
and upon asking for the Lists of Recruitt they were Shewn<lb></lb>
to him and in such Lists he found the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2571-5">James<lb></lb>
Davis</rs>
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which in every respect answered the Description of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2571-6">Richard Payne</rs>
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and who he was informed was<lb></lb>
on Board the Princes Royal East India man lying<lb></lb>
near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2736">Gravesend</rs>
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. That he then applied to Justice Quarrell<lb></lb>
and obtained a Warrant upon his own Oath Against the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2571-7">James Davis</rs>
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on Suspicion which Warrant was afterwards<lb></lb>
made special to him by Justice Staples who gave him<lb></lb>
a Letter to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2571-63">Chas: Wm Cogan</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ1096">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ1097">Seag to the East India</rs>
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That the said-Mr. Cogan then gave this informant<lb></lb>
an Order to the Commanding Officer on board the Princes<lb></lb>
Royal to deliver to him the Body of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2571-8">James<lb></lb>
Davis</rs>
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if he appeared to be the Identical person he was in<lb></lb>
Search after That this Informant together with Mr. Hunt</p>
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