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<p n="207"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo156">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of William<lb></lb>
Heritage taken upon Oath before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n207-1">William Blackborow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ79">Esquire</rs>
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One of His<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and<lb></lb>
for the said County This <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15097_date27">27th. day of<lb></lb>
January 1786</rs>
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<p n="208">This Informant upon his Oath saith that on<lb></lb>
Saturday the fourteenth day of January instant at about<lb></lb>
the hour of Five of the Clock in the Evening he was employed<lb></lb>
to Carry a Parcel of Copper & other Goods to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo157">Broad Street</rs>
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and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo158">Thames Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo159">City of London</rs>
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by<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n208-1">William Cowland</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ80">Brazier</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo160">Aylesbury Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo161">Clerkenwell</rs>
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. That in Cheapsie Between <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo162">Gutter Lane</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
Foster Lane He was accosted by the Prisoner Simon<lb></lb>
Solomons who said to this Informant. You seem to<lb></lb>
have a very heavy load and likewise asked him where<lb></lb>
he was going. Upon which this Informant told him<lb></lb>
to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo163">Broad Street</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo164">Thames Street</rs>
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. The said Simon<lb></lb>
Solomons then said he would give this Informant a<lb></lb>
lift as far as <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo165">Broad Street</rs>
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. This Informant then<lb></lb>
said he should be glad if he would and he this<lb></lb>
Informant would give him a Penny for a Glass of Gin<lb></lb>
That the load was then lifted From this Informant upon<lb></lb>
the Shoulders of the Prisoner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n208-3">Simon Solomons</rs>
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<lb></lb>
(Who had a Knott and seemed like a Porter) by this<lb></lb>
Informant and another Man who came behind him<lb></lb>
That almost immediately after a Man fell down before<lb></lb>
this Informant and between him and the said Simon</p>
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