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The Information of
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Serjeant in the Coldstream
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Regiment of Guards and
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Esqr. of
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taken before me this 10th. day of October
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1789.
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Who being on Oath severally say and first the said
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for himself says, that on Tuesday the 25th.
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August last between four and five o Clock in the morning, as he
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, and near the Gate in the Pailing
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he picked up among some grass between the Foot & Horse way
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the part of a Watch Chain
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Watch key and Buckle now produced
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that in the Horse road near the same spot, he picked up the
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Bludge on now produced, which several Articles he the same
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morning delivered to
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William Collard
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Groom to
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Esquire And the said
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James Rolph
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for himself sayd, that
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on the 30th. of August last he saw a Silver Watch in the
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Possession of
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a Soldier in the Colds to cam Regiment
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when on Guard at Hawington And that he is very sure that
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a Silver Watch, which he hath this Day seen in the Possession
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of
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Mr Windsor
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in
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is the same Watch
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which he saw in
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said Daniels possession as aforesaid.
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And the said
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Clement Debney
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for himself says that the Buckle
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part of a Watch Chain, and Watch key now produced are his property
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and were lost by him the night on which he was robbed upon
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and verily beleives that the Bludgeon
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