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The Informacon of
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Thomas Kavanagh
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31th. day of December 1696
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who lodgeth att the signe
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of the Three Kings in
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This Informant sayeth That on the 17th: day of Aprill 1695 he was
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Marryed to one Mr holders Daughter a Merct: of the Citty of London
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whose brother
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some time after comeing from Spaine where
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he had been imployed as a
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for his Father for severall yeares
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and being called to an Accot. by his said Father for many Thousand
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pounds which he had of his Fathers in his hands in order to have
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disposed of some part thereof to this Informt: wife and the rest of
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his Children the said
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John Holder
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being displeased att this and his sisters
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Marryage used all meanes to obteine a divorce between this Informt:
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and his wife which proveing ineffectuall who the said
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procured senrall psons to sweare Cliping and Coming against this Informt:
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whereupon this Informt: was comitted in October left to the Batehouse and
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some time after was brought to the Goale of Newgate and dureing his
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being there John
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an
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Thomas Bush
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and Jones a Victualler
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in Russell Court or Street war Covent Garden came to this Informt.
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and told him that they came from
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who they said had no
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designe upon this Informts
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life but only to procure a divorse
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between him and his wife and
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that if this Informant would leave this Kingdome and retire into France
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the laid
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would pay him Five hundred pounds whereupon
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this Informant told them the goeing out of England into France or the
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Attempt thereof would bee hazardous to this Informt: and if taken in
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the Attempt would render his life in hazard or something to that effect upon which they the
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said Eagan, Bush, and Jones told this Informt that they could easily
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convey him thither for as much as that they were the psons that conveyed
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