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<p n="308"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo172">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n308-1">William Langly</rs>
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taken before me this 5th. day of Octr..<lb></lb>
1768</p>
<p n="309">Who being upon Oath says that on or about the 3d. of<del>Augt</del>
Sepr. last<lb></lb>
in the Afternoon he saw his late Master <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n309-1">John Stoddart</rs>
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in perfect Heath<lb></lb>
says that about six o'Clock he went out says that about 12 in the<lb></lb>
Night he was brought home by three Men and one Woman that<lb></lb>
he was then very bloody and Wounded in different parts says he<lb></lb>
asked him if he had been Robbed that his Master replied that he was<lb></lb>
a Dead Man that he had only lost his Watch says that he told him<lb></lb>
that he had been Attackt by two Villains that their first Salutation was<lb></lb>
Damn your Blood your Money or Life and that one of them<lb></lb>
Fought him fair but that the other Cut him in several places<lb></lb>
and that when he had got the better of the one the other stabbed him<lb></lb>
under the breast says that his Master likewise informed him that he<lb></lb>
had pulled one of the Men's Coats off and pulled his Shirt over his head<lb></lb>
says that after he had called a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50587_occ102">Surgeon</rs>
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to assist his Master he went<lb></lb>
with a Person now present who calls himself Miles Hoddy a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50587_occ103">Constable</rs>
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& who was then Constable of the Night to the place where according to<lb></lb>
the description of his said Master he had been Attackt says that he there<lb></lb>
found a hatt a knife and two Wiggs now produced and also his<lb></lb>
Master's Watch Chain and Seals says that the said Mr. Hoddy found a<lb></lb>
Coat now produced says that his said Master contained He about<lb></lb>
a fortnight from that time and then Died as he believes from the<lb></lb>
Injuries that he recd. as aforesaid say that on shewing the said to Mr.<lb></lb>
Stoddart he declared that the owner of that hatt was the Person that<lb></lb>
Stabbed him</p>
<p n="310">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
Octor. 5. 1768}</p>
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<p n="312"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n312-1">William Langley</rs>
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