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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n274-1">John Beadle</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ95">Junior</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo248">Erith</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo249">County of Kent</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo250">Custom House</rs>
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Officer Taken upon Oath this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15098_date50">14th. day of May 1787</rs>
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before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n274-2">James Townsend</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ96">Esquire</rs>
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one of the<lb></lb>
Aldermen of the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo251">City of London</rs>
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<p n="275">Saith that on Monday the seventh Instant Richard<lb></lb>
Richard, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n275-2">John Rockwal</rs>
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Officer, of Excise came and<lb></lb>
desired the assistance of this Informant and his Father to go<lb></lb>
and assist them in seizure a Cart with run Goods at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo252">Leather Bottle Inn in Northfleet</rs>
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of which they had<lb></lb>
Information and having got to the Inn they seized a Cart<lb></lb>
and about a Ton Weight of Tobacco therein for not being<lb></lb>
in the Original Package when removed and not having<lb></lb>
a Certificate to accompany its Removal and having<lb></lb>
procured two Horses to removed the seizure to Greenhath<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n275-3">Richard Horlock</rs>
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the Landlord asked this Informant<lb></lb>
to Compromise the Matter to which he answered it<lb></lb>
could not be down and they drove the Horses and Cart<lb></lb>
towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo253">London</rs>
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and near to a Placed called Gulley<lb></lb>
Hile they were overtaken by Five Men on Horse Back<lb></lb>
two of which Informant had seen before at this<lb></lb>
Inn when the seizure was made and the Prisoner now<lb></lb>
under Examination is one of these two that the Five</p>
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