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<p n="1560"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1014">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1560-1">Michael Leoni</rs>
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, taken and<lb></lb>
made on Oath before me one of Majestys Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1015">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
29th. day of August 1781.</p>
<p n="1561">This Informant saith that on the twenty fifth day of<lb></lb>
August instant between the Hours of nine and ten o'Clock<lb></lb>
in the Evening he took a Hackney Coach in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1016">White chapel</rs>
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to go to his<del>House</del>
Lodgings at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1017">Kingsland</rs>
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in the said County<lb></lb>
That a little beyond the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1018">Sign of the Black Horse</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1019">Kingsland<lb></lb>
Road</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Leonard <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1020">Shoreditch</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County this Informant then being and riding on the Coach<lb></lb>
Box, he was attacked by four<del>three</del>
Footpads who with horrid<lb></lb>
Imprecations stopped the Coach and demanded this Informants<lb></lb>
Money. That one of them came up to this Informant on the<lb></lb>
the Coach Box while two others stood on the side of the Hosses<lb></lb>
and the other at the Horses Heads. That this Informant<lb></lb>
was struck several times<del>by</del>
with a Cutlass or Hanger and<lb></lb>
wounded on the Arm by the Person who came up to the<lb></lb>
Coach Box, who robbed this Informant of a Gold Watch a<lb></lb>
Silk Purse containing eleven Guineas, a red Pocket Book<lb></lb>
containing a Note drawn for one hundred and fifty Pounds<lb></lb>
about twenty Shillings in silver and two copper Medals<lb></lb>
this Informants property And further saith that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1561-1">John<lb></lb>
Harford</rs>
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is one of the Persons who so attacked this Informant<lb></lb>
and was concerned with the said other persons in robbing<lb></lb>
this Informant of the abovementioned Things.</p>
<p n="1562">Taken and sworn the<del>20th</del>
<lb></lb>
day and Year aforesaid }<lb></lb>
D Wilmot</p>
<p n="1563">M. Leoni</p>
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