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<p n="270">with him and or going to them with the Landlord they<lb></lb>
asked him of he would not compromise the Matter but<lb></lb>
being Answered in the Negative they told him they would be<lb></lb>
damned if he should have the Goods that the Prisoner<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n270-1">Joseph Williams</rs>
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now under Examination was one of the<lb></lb>
Persons that made that Declaration that Informant<lb></lb>
asked them of they would or dared to attempt a Rescue<lb></lb>
who answered that they possitively would and the conformer <lb></lb>
then broke off and the Officers thereupon observed the two<lb></lb>
Horses and Cart with the Tabacco about a Mile from the<lb></lb>
Inn towards London near a Hour called the Galley<lb></lb>
Hill, this Informant having then the White driving the<lb></lb>
Horser and the other Officer walking a little before<lb></lb>
That the Prisoner and the said other Person who before would<lb></lb>
to compromise the Matter at the Inn and three New<lb></lb>
Men on Horse Back came up to him, when one of them<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ93">draw</rs>
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and cocked a Brass Pistol and Insisted on Informant<lb></lb>
going up the Seizure and Threat and to Fire at him of<lb></lb>
he did not comply, but Informant resolutely persisted in<lb></lb>
his duly and one of the Men on Horse back put spurs why<lb></lb>
Horse and rode Informant down and the Smuglers then obsene<lb></lb>
a general Fire upon the Officer and wounded two of the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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