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<p n="80"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo57">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n80-1">Francis Cooper</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo58">Half Noon Alehouse at Brentford</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo59">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n80-2">Thomas Field</rs>
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one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ26">Headboroughs</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo60">Parish of<del>her</del>
Isleworth</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County taken before one this 16th. day of<lb></lb>
Janry 1789</p>
<p n="81">Who being upon Oath say, and forit the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n81-1">Francis<lb></lb>
Cooper</rs>
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for himself saith that last Night about ten o'Clock a<lb></lb>
person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n81-2">Richard Haines</rs>
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came<lb></lb>
into his House with another personThat said Haines<lb></lb>
called for a Pot of PorterThat he and said other person<lb></lb>
drank the same in about a quarter of an hour and as<lb></lb>
he was going along his Passage leading from his House<lb></lb>
into the Street, the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n81-3">Richard Haines</rs>
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lifted him up and<lb></lb>
took his Watch out of his Fob, and ran away with the<lb></lb>
sameThat he pursued said Haines about fifty Yards<lb></lb>
when he sized hold of him by the Coat and charged him<lb></lb>
with stealing his WatchThat said Haines denied it<lb></lb>
and a struggle ensued between them and said Haines got<lb></lb>
away from him and went towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo61">Kew Bridge</rs>
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, soon<lb></lb>
after which he was apprehensive thro' this Informants<lb></lb>
cries of "Stop Thief" That Informant with others then<lb></lb>
got a Candle and Lanthora and went to the Spot where said<lb></lb>
Haines had been struggling with him and got from him where<lb></lb>
he perceived his Watch, lying on the Ground on which he sent<lb></lb>
for the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n81-4">Thomas Field</rs>
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And the said Thomas as Field for<lb></lb>
himself saith that he<del>went with the said Cooper and on<lb></lb>
Searching for the said Watch he</del>
found the same lying on the<lb></lb>
Ground as aforesaid</p>
<p n="82">Sworn before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45037_date13">16th Janry 1789</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n82-1">Sampr Wright</rs>
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<p n="83"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n83-1">Frances Cooper</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n83-2">Thomas Field</rs>
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