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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n168-1">Solomon Phillips</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo132">Rosemary Lane Whitechapel</rs>
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Reader of the Hamboro Synagogue <lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo133">Fenchurch Street</rs>
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London and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n168-3">Abraham Harris</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo134">Gravel</rs>
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Lane Hounsditch <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ53">Labourer</rs>
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who upon their Oaths severally say<lb></lb>
And First this Informant Solomon Phillips for himself saith<lb></lb>
that on Monday last the twenty sixth of March instant the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ54">Prisoner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n168-5">David Levi</rs>
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came into the Hall in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo135">Duke's Place</rs>
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where<lb></lb>
this Informant hath the Custody and Distribution of the Flour<lb></lb>
intended to be given to the Poor of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo136">Synagogue</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
Asked if he was to have any Flour upon which this Informant<lb></lb>
told him he had then no Orders from the Treasurer to deliver him<lb></lb>
any but he should see the Treasurer that Evening and would<lb></lb>
give him his Answer if he would call the next Morning<lb></lb>
And this Informant Saith that the Prisoner soon afterwards<lb></lb>
returned again to the Hall when the Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n168-6">Abraham Harris</rs>
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was present And these Informants Solomon Phillips and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n168-7">Abraham Harris</rs>
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both say that the said David Levi then<lb></lb>
shut the Hall Door and drew out a Hanger and with many<lb></lb>
Imprecations declared he would have Flour and that if any<lb></lb>
body opposed him he would cut and hack them to Pieces and<lb></lb>
would destroy all the Four, and this Informant Solomon<lb></lb>
Phillips thereupon ran out for Assistance to secure him And<lb></lb>
this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n168-9">Abraham Harris</rs>
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for himself Saith that<lb></lb>
being left alone with the Prisoner (excepting only this<lb></lb>
nformant's Son a Lad of Fourteen Years of Age) and<lb></lb>
intimated with his Weapon and Threats he made no resistance <lb></lb>
but let him use: his Pleasure; whereupon the Prisoner<lb></lb>
weighed out for himself Four Pecks of Flour which he put<lb></lb>
into his Sack which he had brought with him and carried the</p>
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