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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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William Clare
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Saith he Lodges at Mr. Rawlings's
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That he was in the Kitchen when the Soldiers Came
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That Fieldings Men Came first and Opened the
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Door where Informant and several Others were
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and Ask'd if they were all PeaceableThat they
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Answer'd they wereThat the Men bid them to
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keep the Door Shut and there should no harm
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happen to themThat the Door was Put to
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and presently afterwards Informant heard the
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Clashing of Hangers or CutlassesAnd a Voice
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from some Place said Gentlemen Surrender Yourselves
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We are Come to take some of Ye Behave as such
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And We will use Ye WellUpon which this
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Informant heard an Huzza from above stairs
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And imediately after that somebody said "the first
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Person that Advances is a Dead Man"
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That then Informant heard the Report three
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or four times of a Pistolwhich certainly came from above Stairs And then Informant
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heard somebody say Soldiers Advance
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That after this Informant heard some of the
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Soldiers who were in
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the Passage
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between the
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Tap Room and the Kitchen Say "We are Flanked
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in the Tap Room" And in four or five Minutes
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afterwards Informant saw the Soldiers in the
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StreetSaith he Believes they went into the
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Street upon the Words that they were Flank'd in
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the Tap Room being saidThat in four or
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