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<p n="507"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n507-1">John Leigh</rs>
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Saith hers Clerk to Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50704_n507-2">John Fielding</rs>
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That Saturday Evening the 30th. Sepr. An Information was<lb></lb>
made before the Magistrates Assembled in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo302">Bow Street</rs>
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that the<lb></lb>
Cutters were Assembled at the Dolphin in Cock Lane<lb></lb>
and Warrant was Granted to Search the House and a Number<lb></lb>
of Peace Officers were Sent for to Execute it<lb></lb>
That Informant was Sent with the Constables and Mr. Wright<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50704_occ155">Justice of the Peace</rs>
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took a party of the Guards from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo303">the Savoy</rs>
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with him to Support the Constables fearing they would be<lb></lb>
Insufficient to stand against such a Set of Persons as the<lb></lb>
Cutters were Represented to beThat by the time they<lb></lb>
got to the House there were not above five or Six of the<lb></lb>
Peace Officers out of upwards of Thirty who Set out to go<lb></lb>
That somewhere about <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo304">Old Street</rs>
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Informant<del>met w</del>
and the<lb></lb>
Peace Officers<obscured></obscured>
with Justice Wright and the Guards<lb></lb>
That Mr. Wright Proposed that Six Constables or their<lb></lb>
Assistants Supported by Six Soldiers should go into the House<lb></lb>
And the rest of the Soldiers were to Surround the House<lb></lb>
That Informant was fixed for One of the Six And was the<lb></lb>
first who went into the HouseThat Informant went<lb></lb>
directly up Stairs and was followed by One Taylor a Constable<lb></lb>
and some Soldiers But who in Particular he does not know<lb></lb>
That there was a Door at the Stairs Head<del>which Informant</del>
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<del>found Open</del>
At which stood a Man who Opened it a little way And that man run<lb></lb>
along a Passage which Lead to the Room where the Cutters<lb></lb>
were And went into the Room And Shut the Door<lb></lb>
That Informant then Followed him down <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50704_geo305">the Passage</rs>
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and Pushed open the Room Door and</p>
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