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<p n="70"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo31">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n70-1">Hugh Temple</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this 26. day of July 1769</p>
<p n="71">Who being Oath Says that he knows <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n71-1">William Litch</rs>
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field, Joseph<lb></lb>
Stack house and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n71-2">Joseph Posnett</rs>
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who are all common Thieves, says that on Saturday<lb></lb>
Morning last about one or two o'Clock the said Willim Litch field and this<lb></lb>
Informant robbed some Gentleman and Ladies in two Coaches near Bays-<lb></lb>
-water of some Money and a Gold repeating Watch which Watch this Informant<lb></lb>
left in the Care of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n71-3">William Litchfield</rs>
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, says that on Thursday Night<lb></lb>
last the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n71-4">William Litchfield</rs>
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and this Informant robbed a Gentleman<lb></lb>
and two Ladies on this Side the Alms houses on the Clapham Road of a Guinea<lb></lb>
and Six pence and Some other Money that one of the said Ladies begged they<lb></lb>
would Spare her King which they did, that the same Night the Said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n71-5">William Litchfield</rs>
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and this Informant robbes two Men with a Cart near<lb></lb>
Clapham, that on Monday Night the 17th. of July Instant the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n71-6">William<lb></lb>
Litchfield</rs>
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the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n71-7">Joseph Stackhouse</rs>
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and this Informant<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Stopped two Women & two Men in the Bishop's Walk Lambatt on first took<lb></lb>
Men they robbed of a Silver Watch, that on the Saturday Night preceding<lb></lb>
the said Robbery the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n71-8">Joseph Stackhouse</rs>
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the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n71-9">William Litchfield</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and this Informant robbed a Man in a Cart near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo32">Paddington</rs>
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of a Silver<lb></lb>
Watch and Some Money which Watch the said Joseph Stack house<lb></lb>
carried to parson at Mr Tripp's in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo33">St. Martin's Lane</rs>
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, that one Night<lb></lb>
about a fortnight ago the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n71-10">William Litchfield</rs>
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and this Informant<lb></lb>
stopped three Post Chaises on the Wand Sworth Road, that they robbed the<lb></lb>
Post Boy belonging to one of the said Chaises of a Silver Watch which they<lb></lb>
afterwards sold to a Stranger and that they likewise robbed a Lady in the Said<lb></lb>
Chaises of eighteen pence and a Silver Thimble, that they robbed a Gentleman<lb></lb>
in another of the said Chaises of six Shillings and told him they were Soldiers<lb></lb>
that they robbed the Post Boy belonging to the other Chaise of Some Money<lb></lb>
that about a fortnight ago the Said William Litchfields and this Informant<lb></lb>
robbed two Gentleman near the Cow and Calves near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo34">Little Chelsea</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
some Money and Some Medals which Medals they threes away,</p>
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