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<p n="63"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx. ss</note>
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Information upon oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50111_n63-1">William Johnson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50111_geo32">Ealing</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50111_occ17">Labor</rs>
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. taken this <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50111_date16">twenty first Day of Decemr Anno Dom<lb></lb>
1709</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="64">This Informant deposeth, that on this present <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50111_date17">twenty first Day of<lb></lb>
Decemr.</rs>
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about five a clock in the evening this Depont. was desired by<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50111_n64-1">John Hickson</rs>
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one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50111_occ18">Headbourghs</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50111_geo33">Parish of Ealing</rs>
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, to go afer<lb></lb>
a person describ'd to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50111_n64-2">John Hickson</rs>
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, to have committed a robbery,<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
before, upon the Queens highway, upon which this Depont borrow'd<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
ell of the said<del>person,</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50111_n64-3">Jon. Hickson</rs>
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& went together with an <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50111_n64-4">Thomas Samms</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
pursuit of the said described person, & upon meeting a person thus<lb></lb>
described, they suspected him to be the Person, upon which the said Heads<lb></lb>
bourgh desird the said suspected person to surrender himselfe, which he<lb></lb>
Willingly at first did, but after some time the said suspected person came<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
up to this Depont. who was then a guard upon him & suddenly laying his hand upon this Deponents hands<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
which he had the said pistoll, he ptelld this Depont. of the horse,<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
he was then upon, & endeavourd to make his escape, upon which, this<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
ponr. pursu'd him, & caught hold of his coat, & in a further scuffle,<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
y being down together, the said Headbourgh came up to his assistance,<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
by stricking the said suspected person, he made him surrender himselfe<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
cond time.</p>
<p n="65"> <obscured></obscured>
An abovementiond suspected person own'd himselfe afterwards<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
to be<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50111_n65-1">Nathanil Shrimpton</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="66">This Depont. further deposeth that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50111_n66-1">Nathaniel Shrimpton</rs>
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ownd,<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
kat he came from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50111_geo34">London</rs>
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with but six pence in his pockett, but upon<lb></lb>
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earch there was found seven shillings in mony numbred, which the<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50111_n66-2">Nathaniel Shrimpton</rs>
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confest<del>said</del>
he borrowd just before, of a person in<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
road, unknown to him, with some other particular pieces.</p>
<p n="67"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50111_n67-1">William Johnson</rs>
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</p>
<p n="68">& Die predict<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50111_n68-2">Thoma Cullum</rs>
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