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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2040-1">Henry Cannen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2040-2">William Penny</rs>
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Feather, and <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2040-3">Richard Glover</rs>
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, taken before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2040-4">Edward Read</rs>
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Esq one of his<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ439">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1276">County of Middlesex</rs>
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this Third<lb></lb>
Day of November 1778. Who being duly Sworn Severally upon <lb></lb>
their Oaths say.first <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2040-5">Henry Cannon</rs>
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for himself saith that<lb></lb>
he is a Carter to Mr. Sheppard Gardner in the Kings Road Chelsea<lb></lb>
That about Three o'Clock on Tuesday Morning last the 28th <del>Instant</del>
day of<lb></lb>
October. as he was going to take his Masters Cart to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1277">Covent<lb></lb>
Garden</rs>
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Markett ( as usual) he saw a Woman laying on the<lb></lb>
Ground in Robinsons Lane, and with his Lanthorn he saw<lb></lb>
she was terribly wounded about her head and face, and with<lb></lb>
very little signs of Life. and he asked her what she did there,<lb></lb>
but she was not able to give him any kind of answer - that he<lb></lb>
was much alarmed, and went to one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2040-6">William Penny</rs>
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feather a<lb></lb>
Watchman at the top of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1278">Church lane</rs>
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, and informed him what he<lb></lb>
had seen and requested the said Penny feather to go with him to<lb></lb>
her assistance - that they went and found her in the same situ<lb></lb>
=ation he left her. That the this Informant and Penny feather<lb></lb>
then went to call <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2040-7">Richard Glover</rs>
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an other Watchman at the<lb></lb>
bottom of Robinson's Lane. Penny feather first covering her head<lb></lb>
with her apron to keep off the cold foggy Air from her wounds<lb></lb>
that after they had called Glover he this Informant Cannon went<lb></lb>
about his business-</p>
<p n="2041">And <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2041-1">William Penny</rs>
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feather for himself saith<lb></lb>
that he is a Watchman at the top of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1279">Church lane Chelsea</rs>
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, that<lb></lb>
a little after Three o'clock on Tuesday Morning last the 28th; Day of<lb></lb>
October - <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2041-2">Henry Cannon</rs>
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came to him and told him a Person had<lb></lb>
been Robbd and murdered and thrown into a Ditch in Robinsons<lb></lb>
Lane, and that he could not be satisfied until he this Informant<lb></lb>
had been with him to see - that he went and found it was<lb></lb>
a Mulatto Woman dreadfully wounded about the Head and face-<lb></lb>
that he preceived she was not quite dead - that he this Informant<lb></lb>
and Cannon then went to call one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2041-3">Richard Glover</rs>
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an other<lb></lb>
Watchman and then Cannon left them and went about his busi<lb></lb>
=ness that he Pennyfeather and Glover went and took her<lb></lb>
to the bottom of the Lane - then he Pennyfeather went to his<lb></lb>
Duty.</p>
<p n="2042">And <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2042-1">Richard Glover</rs>
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for himself saith that his a Watchm<lb></lb>
=an at the bottom of Robinsons Lane <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1280">Chelsea</rs>
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. That on Tuesday<lb></lb>
Morning last the 28th,, Day of October a little before Four o'Clock<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2042-2">Henry Cannon</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2042-3">William Penny</rs>
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feather came to him and told<lb></lb>
him that a Poor Woman was laying in Robinsons Lane almost</p>
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