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<p n="254"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo273">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n254-1">Collin Minzies</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n254-2">Richard Long</rs>
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taken on Oath<lb></lb>
before us two of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ111">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said<lb></lb>
County the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date52">31st. day of March 1787</rs>
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<p n="255">Who being on their Oaths say and first the said Collin Minzies for himself saith<lb></lb>
that be came from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo274">Cork</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo275">Ireland</rs>
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about five<del>three or four</del>
Weeksup that he brought<lb></lb>
a Letter from there for the Person now present who says his name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-36">James<lb></lb>
Walsh</rs>
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but who was then known to this Deponent by the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-85">Daniel<lb></lb>
Welch</rs>
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that the said Person has seldom been out of this Informants company<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
he arrived at London until Saturday the tenth day of March instant on which<lb></lb>
day he this Informant received the sum of forty six pounds sixteen shillings from<lb></lb>
Mr Skiggs at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo276">White Hart</rs>
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in the Boroughthat Welch was present with him<lb></lb>
when he received it and never out of his company until he was robbed<lb></lb>
thereof in the morning of the next day<del>evening of that day</del>
that he bought a silk Purse in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo277">London hall<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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in the afternoon of the same day into which he put all his money<lb></lb>
to wit forty four Guineas and one half in Gold and seven half Crowns in Silver<lb></lb>
in the presence of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-1">James Walsh</rs>
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that they went in company to several<lb></lb>
Places together and at last to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo278">the Black Horse and Crown</rs>
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on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo279">Town Hill</rs>
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<lb></lb>
about eight or nine o'Clock in the evening where they joined company with<lb></lb>
several Men whom this Informant knew and had seen before particularly<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-89">John Desmand</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-2">Francis Lindsey</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-3">Francis Simmonds</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that he had drank pretty freely and in the course of the<lb></lb>
evening recollects to have pulled out his purse before the Company and took out<lb></lb>
half a Crown to bet with one of their upon the subject of navigation that he<lb></lb>
did not put his purre back into his Breeches Pocket but put it in his<del>Right</del>
<lb></lb>
left hand Waistcoat Pocket that he went out of the house twice Backwards<del>to<lb></lb>
make<obscured></obscured>
</del>
that one of those times Walsh was with him who was or<lb></lb>
petended to be sick and leaned upon this Informants shoulder that nine<lb></lb>
time after he come an he missed his purse and money that upon making as<lb></lb>
disturbance about the same the Landlady came up to him scratched his<lb></lb>
Face and Illheated him and said she did not believe that ever he was<lb></lb>
Possessed of so much money that in return he struck her upon which she<lb></lb>
called in the Watchmen and sent him to the Watch house where he<lb></lb>
remained until eight oClock the next morning<lb></lb>
when she came and discharged him without ever taking him before a<lb></lb>
Marshall lastly saith that there were other Persons in the said House<lb></lb>
during the time this Informant was there but he did not go into the<lb></lb>
company of any Person or Persons but them the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-4">James Walsh</rs>
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otherwise<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-5">David Welch</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-489">JohnDesmand</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-6">Francis Lindsey</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n255-7">Francis Simmonds</rs>
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<p n="256">Sworn before us the day &<lb></lb>
Year first above written}</p>
<p n="257"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n257-1">John Staples</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n257-2">Saml Hawkins</rs>
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<p n="258"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n258-1">John Mongers</rs>
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