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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1542-1">Benjamin Short</rs>
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, apprentice to<lb></lb>
West Thimble by of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1196">Coleman Street</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15091_occ485">Butcher</rs>
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, Who,<lb></lb>
being on Oath saith that on Wednesday the seventh day of<lb></lb>
this instant June he this Informant saw many Persons<lb></lb>
concerned in a Riot in the said Street, when the Goods<lb></lb>
Furniture and part of the Dwelling House of Robert<lb></lb>
Charleton of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1197">Coleman Street</rs>
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aforesaid were demolished<lb></lb>
Saith that he saw <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1542-2">William Pateman</rs>
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the Prisoner<lb></lb>
now under Examination with a blue Cockade in his Hat<lb></lb>
that he was one of the Persons concerned in such Riot<lb></lb>
that he went about the Street Collecting money that he<lb></lb>
saw said Pateman sitting upon Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1542-3">Charletons Furniture</rs>
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after they were brought into the Street & put in a pill<lb></lb>
that he afterwards, saw him assist in loading the Carts with the<lb></lb>
same Goods, which were carried away into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1198">Moorfields</rs>
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and there burnt.</p>
<p n="1543">Taken and Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1199">Guildhall</rs>
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London the 15th. day of June 1780 before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1543-1">James Esdaile</rs>
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