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<p n="258">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50428_n258-1">Thomas Saunders</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo221"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo222">Berkhampstead Saint<lb></lb>
Peters</rs>
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in the County of Hertford</rs>
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Given before me<del> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50428_n258-2">Richard Copper</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50428_n258-3">John Fielding</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50428_occ125">Esqr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50428_occ126">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the<del>Said</del>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo223">Midx</rs>
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<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50428_date77">Fourteenth<del>second</del>
day of June</rs>
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1754 who upon his Oath Saith that on <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50428_date78">Tuesday<lb></lb>
the 28th. day May Last</rs>
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about ten of the Clock in the Evening as<lb></lb>
near as hee Can Guess as to the Time as hee Was Comeing from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo224">London</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to Go to his owne House. two Men on Horse back att a place<lb></lb>
Called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo225">Brent Bridge</rs>
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on the other side of Edger mett the Informant<lb></lb>
upon the Road and one of them Crossd the Road upon time upon which the<lb></lb>
Informant asked him to hat he Meant by itt upon Which the other<lb></lb>
man<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Said lett him go I take him to be an Honest man thereupon<lb></lb>
the Informant thought no more of them but Comeing up <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo226">Stanmore</rs>
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<lb></lb>
will near to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo227">Bushey Heath</rs>
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the Same two persons rid by him and<lb></lb>
when the Informant Came near to the Heath Where Mr Parara the<lb></lb>
Jew Lives one of the Persons to as on foot under the Trees holding his<lb></lb>
Horss in his hand<del>and the Informant</del>
and the Informant Ridering on<lb></lb>
the other person whom he Saw att <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo228">Brent Bridge</rs>
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was Sitting upon his<lb></lb>
Mare upon the Road betwixt the trees where the other man Was and<lb></lb>
the Brew house that is near Stanmore; and than Stopt the Examinant<lb></lb>
and bid him deliver his Money or he would Blow his Brains out<lb></lb>
upon Which the Informant told him he had no money and then the Said<lb></lb>
Person told him he knew he had and that itt was in a Bagg and<lb></lb>
demanded itt of him and Clapt a Pistoll to the Informants Brest and<lb></lb>
than demanded his watch which the Informant told him he had u Watch<lb></lb>
upon Which the person putt his hand to the Wast band of his Breeches<lb></lb>
and finding he had now he then Jusisted to deliver to him what<lb></lb>
Money he had which was Nine pence half penny Which the Informant<lb></lb>
delivered to him and than the Person Rid off Saith that in about<lb></lb>
Four or Five Minutes after as near as he Can Guess as to the time<lb></lb>
the Mare he beleives upon Which the Person Rode that Robbed the Examinant<lb></lb>
Came after the Informant Without his Rider and followed the Informant<lb></lb>
to the Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo229">Bushey</rs>
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Where the Examinant delivered the Mare to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50428_n258-4">Marke Cook</rs>
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who Keeps the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo230"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50428_geo231">Red Lyon</rs>
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in Bushey</rs>
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and this Informant<del>is</del>
<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
Positive to the Mare by reason of the Saddle Cloth or Houseing which<lb></lb>
was upon or under the Sadle as being a Very remarkable one Which</p>
<p n="259">the Informant took Notice of when he was Robbed as aforesaid and believes the person that Robbed him to be<lb></lb>
Twenty years of age or upwards and More Saith not.</p>
<p n="260"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50428_n260-1">Thomas Saunders</rs>
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