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Saith hers Clerk to Sr.
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That Saturday Evening the 30th. Sepr. An Information was
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made before the Magistrates Assembled in
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that the
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Cutters were Assembled at the Dolphin in Cock Lane
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and Warrant was Granted to Search the House and a Number
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of Peace Officers were Sent for to Execute it
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That Informant was Sent with the Constables and Mr. Wright
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a
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took a party of the Guards from
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the Savoy
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with him to Support the Constables fearing they would be
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Insufficient to stand against such a Set of Persons as the
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Cutters were Represented to beThat by the time they
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got to the House there were not above five or Six of the
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Peace Officers out of upwards of Thirty who Set out to go
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Old Street
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Peace Officers
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with Justice Wright and the Guards
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That Mr. Wright Proposed that Six Constables or their
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Assistants Supported by Six Soldiers should go into the House
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And the rest of the Soldiers were to Surround the House
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That Informant was fixed for One of the Six And was the
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first who went into the HouseThat Informant went
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directly up Stairs and was followed by One Taylor a Constable
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and some Soldiers But who in Particular he does not know
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That there was a Door at the Stairs Head
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found Open
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At which stood a Man who Opened it a little way And that man run
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along a Passage which Lead to the Room where the Cutters
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were And went into the Room And Shut the Door
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That Informant then Followed him down
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and Pushed open the Room Door and
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