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<p n="31"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50590_geo25">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50590_n31-1">Robt. Jones</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50590_occ5">Esquire</rs>
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taken before me the 9th.<lb></lb>
day of Decr. 1768</hi>
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<p n="32">Who being upon Oath says that he was yesterday at the<lb></lb>
Election at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50590_geo26">Brentford</rs>
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that between two and three o' Clock a Mob <lb></lb>
Attacked the Booth every thing being than quiet and no Apparent<lb></lb>
Invocation given to anyboby says that several of the Persons who<lb></lb>
composed said Mob had <del>upon</del>
in their hatts a paper upon<lb></lb>
which were Printed the Words Proctor and Liberty Says that<lb></lb>
they knocked down every Person in discriminately declaring <lb></lb>
that there shou'd be no father Poll says that he saw several<lb></lb>
Persons Freeholders and others beat in a very Inhuman<lb></lb>
manner by the said Mob with Bluetgeens says that the officers <lb></lb>
Voters and all other Persons were drove from the Boothe<lb></lb>
says. that he is informed and verily believes that serve Persons<lb></lb>
have last their Lives in conveyance of the Ill treatment out of the said<lb></lb>
Mob. Says that two Persons now present who call themselves<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50590_n32-4">Edwd. Quick</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50590_n32-3">Lawrence Balfe</rs>
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were present in the said Mob<lb></lb>
aiding and assisting says that when the said Mob frist appeared they<lb></lb>
flourished their Sticks in the Air and rushed on in a Sudden <lb></lb>
riotous and tumultuous manner</p>
<p n="33">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
December 9th. 1768}</p>
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<p n="35">R Jones</p>
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