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<p n="242"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50520_geo139">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50520_n242-1">John<lb></lb>
Bond</rs>
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taken before me this<lb></lb>
17th. day of Febry 1763</p>
<p n="243">Who being upon Oath says that he knows <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50520_n243-1">Daniel Blake</rs>
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late <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50520_occ50">Servant</rs>
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to Lord Dacre, and now in Newgate. says<lb></lb>
that he became acquainted with said Blake something above<lb></lb>
a year agoe when he lived with Miss Cliffe of Hanover<lb></lb>
Street, says that last Summer while he was in the Service<lb></lb>
of the said Lady be contracted a Dept with this Informt<lb></lb>
of about fourteen Shillings for washingdone by his Wife<lb></lb>
that after this, on said Blakes going out of Town with his<lb></lb>
Mistress, he this Informt. applied to him and pressed him<lb></lb>
much for his money, says that said Blake declared he<lb></lb>
cou'd not then pay the money, and therefore took his Silver<lb></lb>
Buckles out of his Shoes & of them with this Informt.<lb></lb>
as a Pledge for the Money, says that about Michaelmas <lb></lb>
last when said Blake returned to Town he redeemed.<lb></lb>
the said Buckles, says that after this said Blake contracted<lb></lb>
another Debt with this Informt. of Eight Shillings which<lb></lb>
Sum he owed him til the 1st. day of Kebly Inst. the <lb></lb>
day of the Murder of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50520_n243-2">John Murcott</rs>
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the this Informant<lb></lb>
had several times asked him for it and this Informt<lb></lb>
farther says that on Tuesday the Sd. 1st. of Feby before nine<lb></lb>
in the Morning, said Blake came to this Informt. and paid<lb></lb>
him the said Eight Shillings, and about 4 o' Clock the same<lb></lb>
day came a second time to him and purchased a Box of<lb></lb>
this Informt. with Lock & Key for which he Paid three Shillings<lb></lb>
& Six pence, says that at the first of these Payments <lb></lb>
said Blake charged half a Guinea with this</p>
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