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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n674-1">James Groves</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo707">Sipson</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo708">parish of Harmondsworth</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo709">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ277">Farmer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n674-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Fry</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ278">Ostler</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo710">the Chaise and Horses</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo711">Smallbury Green</rs>
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taken before me this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date121">21st. day of May 1787</rs>
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<p n="675">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n675-1">James<lb></lb>
Groves</rs>
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saith that about nine oClock in the Night of the 22nd. of March last<lb></lb>
he this Informant was robbed on foot in a Lane near<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo712">Sipshain</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo713">County of Middlesex</rs>
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of a Silver Watch half<lb></lb>
a Crown a Dollar and about three Shillings in Money by two Foot Yards<lb></lb>
That the next Morning he this Informant called at the said<lb></lb>
Chaise and Horses on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo714">Smallbury Green</rs>
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in order to relate the<lb></lb>
particulars of his being robbedThat in the Tap Room<lb></lb>
of said Alehouse he saw two persons now present who<lb></lb>
call<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n675-3">William Sibley</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n675-4">William Cousins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
eating and drinking, but who on this Informant entering<lb></lb>
paid their Reckoning and went awayThat Informant<lb></lb>
then asked <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n675-5">Thomas Huggins</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ279">Landlord</rs>
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of said Alehouse if<lb></lb>
he knew them, who replied that he did not, and Informant<lb></lb>
told him the manner of his being robbed and that the<lb></lb>
believed said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Sibley to and Cousins were the persons who<lb></lb>
robbed himhad further says that he doth verily believe<lb></lb>
and suspect that said Sibley and Cousins are the Footpads<lb></lb>
that so robbed him as aforesaid And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n675-6">Thomas Fry</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself saith that at the time the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n675-7">James Grover</rs>
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<del>was</del>
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came into his said Master House he well remembers the<lb></lb>
said Sibley and Cousins being in the HouseThat they both went</p>
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