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made on Oath before me one of Majestys Justices
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of the Peace in and for the
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29th. day of August 1781.
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This Informant saith that on the twenty fifth day of
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August instant between the Hours of nine and ten o'Clock
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in the Evening he took a Hackney Coach in
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to go to his
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in the said County
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That a little beyond the
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in the Parish of Saint Leonard
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in the said
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County this Informant then being and riding on the Coach
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Box, he was attacked by four
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three
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Footpads who with horrid
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Imprecations stopped the Coach and demanded this Informants
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Money. That one of them came up to this Informant on the
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the Coach Box while two others stood on the side of the Hosses
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and the other at the Horses Heads. That this Informant
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was struck several times
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by
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with a Cutlass or Hanger and
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wounded on the Arm by the Person who came up to the
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Coach Box, who robbed this Informant of a Gold Watch a
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Silk Purse containing eleven Guineas, a red Pocket Book
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containing a Note drawn for one hundred and fifty Pounds
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about twenty Shillings in silver and two copper Medals
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this Informants property And further saith that
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John
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is one of the Persons who so attacked this Informant
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and was concerned with the said other persons in robbing
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this Informant of the abovementioned Things.
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Taken and sworn the
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20th
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day and Year aforesaid }
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D Wilmot
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M. Leoni
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