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<p n="1420"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo857">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1420-1">James Fegen</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ317">Master</rs>
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of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ318">Frigate the Drceid</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 17th. day of September 1788</p>
<p n="1421">Who being upon Oath says that at about 11 o Clock in<lb></lb>
the Night of the 30th. of January last being then in<lb></lb>
Plymouth Sound he went in the twelve Oar Boat<lb></lb>
belonging to said Frigate with 16 or 17 Men in pursuit<lb></lb>
of a <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1421-1">Smuggling Lugger</rs>
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That <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1421-2">John Rennie</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ319">Midshipman</rs>
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belonging also to the Drceid went in<lb></lb>
the lesser Boat with eight Men to assist this<lb></lb>
InformantThat when this Informant got near<lb></lb>
Shore in Cawsand Bay and came within Pistol Shot<lb></lb>
of said Lugger several Musquets and fire Arms were<lb></lb>
fired by Some Persons, unknown to this Informant,<lb></lb>
in said Lugger at this Informant and his Crew,<lb></lb>
and is very sure said Fire Arms were loaded with<lb></lb>
Shot, That this Informant ordered said Rennie to<lb></lb>
board said Lugger on the Larboard Side while he<lb></lb>
this Informant boarded her on the Starboard side<lb></lb>
That when this Informants Boat got under the Stern<lb></lb>
of said Lugger he order'd his Men to board her<lb></lb>
That at this time he saw several Men standing<lb></lb>
upon the Deck a baft said Lugger who were active<lb></lb>
in opposing their getting on boardThat as he this<lb></lb>
Informant was Climbing over the Stern of said <lb></lb>
Lugger a Musquet was fired, by some Person on<lb></lb>
Board her, close to this Informants Face and he<lb></lb>
forth with received a violent Blow, from the Butt End<lb></lb>
of a Musquet, as he believes, which grazed his<lb></lb>
Head, Struck him on the Shoulder and knock'd him<lb></lb>
backward into his Boat, which render'd him in sensible<lb></lb>
for a short space of timeThat when he came to<lb></lb>
himself he<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
heard one of his Men say he was<lb></lb>
much wounded and that another was killedThat<lb></lb>
this Informant then got on Board said Lugger where<lb></lb>
he found several of his People driving the Luggers<lb></lb>
Men down the forecastle in which he assisted<lb></lb>
That</p>
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