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The Voluntary Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1196-1">James Harrison</rs>
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taken upon Oath before one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1196-2">William Blackborow</rs>
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one of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1196-3">His Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ431">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15092_date127">fourth day of<lb></lb>
October 1781</rs>
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<p n="1197">This Information upon his Oath Saith that on<lb></lb>
or about the Seventh day of September 1781 being as Mr<lb></lb>
H near the Cold Bath Hoxton he saw and was<lb></lb>
in Company with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1197-2">James Underwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1197-3">James Brockley</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1197-4">Thomas Harris</rs>
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and after a little Conversation this Informant<lb></lb>
took up the News Paper to Read and then saw the Paragraph<lb></lb>
Concerning the Robbery of Mr Sharpe of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1195">Holborn Bridge</rs>
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which this Informant said was a great Robbery and them the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1197-5">James Underwood</rs>
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Laughed of this Informant and said<lb></lb>
Yes it was this Informant said he wondered how is could<lb></lb>
he done and who could do it and then the said James<lb></lb>
Underwood said is was done upon the Jump and that he<lb></lb>
and another Person did it and This Informant further<lb></lb>
saith that he verily beleives that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1197-6">James Brockley</rs>
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was the other Person Concerned he being very full of Money at<lb></lb>
that time and that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1197-7">James Brockley</rs>
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said to this<lb></lb>
Informant wee have been to a Stick shop to have a Coin<lb></lb>
Altered and that they bought a Supple Jack for Six pence<lb></lb>
and this Informant further saith that he hath been in<lb></lb>
Company with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1197-8">James Underwood</rs>
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several times since<lb></lb>
and hath heard him declare that he was one of the Persons<lb></lb>
who Committed the Robbery at Mr Sharpes aforesaid</p>
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