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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Saith That Briggs
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was a Worsted Weaver like himself and Work'd for the same
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Warehouse That Informant and Briggs went this day
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Three Weeks to the Dolphin together about Nine in the Evening
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in Order to Pay in some Money to the Cutters then Assembled
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there That they were to Pay in Six Shillings for twelve
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Men belonging to Mrs Chauntrys Warehouse
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That they had not Paid the MoneyThat two Others of
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Informants Shop mates were with him and Brigg's
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That they all went into the Tap Room And after they had
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been in the Tap Room
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about five Minutes the Guards
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Came And as soon as they Came the Officer Placed Two of his
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Men on each side the Tap Room And said "Let no Man Pass"
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That as soon as he had so Planted his Man in less than
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three Minutes they began to Fire Saith he cannot Say
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who it was that first FiredWhether it was the Soldiers
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below or the Cutters from above he cannot Say But
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according to the Samed he thinks it was below
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That after the first Fire there were Two or three Firings
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from Above Stairs and Below That there were about
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Seven Firings in all from Above and Below
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Whether they were in the House or out of the House
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Informant cannot tellThat after about Seven Fires
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the Soldiers Fired into the Tap Room from Out of
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and Turville Street That Informant did not
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Ask to go out of the Room
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That the first Fire into
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the Tap Room Informant thinks Killed Two Persons
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