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<p n="2696"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2609">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2696-1">Joseph Clarke</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2696-2">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Allen</rs>
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taken upon Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2696-3">Edward Webster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ936">Esqr</rs>
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. one<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ937">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date450">16th. day of November 1787</rs>
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<p n="2697">First this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2697-1">Joseph Clarke</rs>
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upon his Oath<lb></lb>
saith that on Saturday Morning the 10th. day of November Instant he received<lb></lb>
same Money and Notes of the Bank and on the Evening of the same day, about<lb></lb>
the hour of Eight he was passing <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2610">No. 45</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2611">Cable Street</rs>
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in the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2612">St. George in<lb></lb>
the East</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2613">County of Middlesex</rs>
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when <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2697-2">Ann Clarke</rs>
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, and another Women by name <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2697-3">Mary Reading</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came out of the house and invited him to go in, which he refused, where upon<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2697-4">Ann Clarke</rs>
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with another person purshed him foreibly<lb></lb>
into the house, and into a Room on the Ground flour, when <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2697-5">Ann Clarks</rs>
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took<lb></lb>
priebly from of his head a Quantity of Cheese, after which this Informant<lb></lb>
Staid voluntarily for sometime in the room and sent for two half pints of<lb></lb>
Gin and drank part of them with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2697-6">Ann Clarke</rs>
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, a Woman named<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2697-7">mary Butler</rs>
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, and a Girl after which he became very sick when a<lb></lb>
Woman called <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2697-85">Poll Randall</rs>
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came up to him who said You are very sick<lb></lb>
I wod. have You send for some supper and go up stains to bed directly-<lb></lb>
he then gave her a Guinea to procure a Supper, and promised to bring him<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2614">the Change</rs>
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, which she did to the amount of Nineteen Shillings that before<lb></lb>
the Supper arrived the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2697-8">Poll Randall</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2697-24">Mary Butter</rs>
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forced,<lb></lb>
him up into a Room up two pair of Stairs, which he objected to having<lb></lb>
a Suspicion that he was in bad hands and when he was in the said<lb></lb>
room the said Poll Randall by force took of his heat, Coat, Hand Kerchief<lb></lb>
and Shoes under the pretence of and ressing him, and whilst she was<lb></lb>
so an dressing him a person not Yet taken brought up a small piece<lb></lb>
of beck upon a Plate without bread or beer and then went out of the-<lb></lb>
room soon afterwards returned with a third half pint of Gin of<lb></lb>
which he drank one Glass, and after drinking the same Poll Randall<lb></lb>
came up to him and said My Dear You sean to have deal of Money abt.<lb></lb>
You, you had better bet me take care of it for you, has the Girl meaning<lb></lb>
Mary Butter had been guilty of a great many petty tricks he answered<lb></lb>
he was capable of taking care of the Money himself, that he wanted to go</p>
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