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<p n="1776"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1083">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1776-1">Samuel Bevan</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
on Oath the twelfth day of November 1788<lb></lb>
before me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ384">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1084">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1777">Who Saith That on Wednesday the Fifth day of November<lb></lb>
Instant about Six O'Clock in the Evening he was going<lb></lb>
from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1085">Bethnal Green</rs>
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towards Mile End read and as he was<lb></lb>
going through a field called <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1086">Globe field</rs>
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near the Kings<lb></lb>
Highway he was stopped by four men who demanded<lb></lb>
his money immediately and if he would give it they would<lb></lb>
not hurt him, immediately one of them catched hold of <lb></lb>
his att Hatt and attempted to Null and did of over his Eyes<lb></lb>
but informant shewed it up a said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and then they began to<lb></lb>
beat him and <del>then</del>
Informant called out Murder<lb></lb>
they continued beating him until they found him weak<lb></lb>
and then they attempted to throw him down which<lb></lb>
they did, and when down they took out of his Pockets<lb></lb>
Three Guineas and a half in Gold and about Ten Shilling<lb></lb>
in Silver and a bad Six pence and some Halfpence,<lb></lb>
and then ran away and one of them stayed behind<lb></lb>
longer than the others or also returned and Informant received from<lb></lb>
him another Violent blow which wounded him in<lb></lb>
the head and then he called out Murder again<lb></lb>
and found himself bleeding <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
very fast And<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1777-1">Thomas Thrist</rs>
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one of the prisoners now<lb></lb>
under Examination was one of the persons who Robbed him<lb></lb>
and believes that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1777-2">John Merryman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was another of them and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1777-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Chaffey</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1778">Sworn the 12th. day of<lb></lb>
November 1788 before<lb></lb>
me}<lb></lb>
Wilmot</p>
<p n="1779"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1779-1">Saml: Bevan</rs>
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