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The Information of John Gladman< no role > of
Turnmill Street Clerkenwell in the County of
Middlesex Yeoman taken and made on Oath
before me one of his Majestys Justices of the
peace in and for the said County the 19th day of
February 1782.

Who saith that he lately lived as a Servant with
Mr. JamesCatCotes worth at the Red Lyon Inn Southwark ,
and was by him employed in conveying the Mail from
the General Post Office Lombard Street , to Barnet.
That on Wednesday morning the 16th of January last about
half an hour after four o'Clockin the Morningas this
Informant was conveying the Mail in a Cart, which he
had that Morning received from the General post Office
to carry to Barnet, he was attacked and stoppednear
thebetween the fifth and sixth Mile Stone on the Barnet
Road, near the Dirt House, by three Foot pads armed.
That one of them a shortish Man with a Cutlass in his
Hand came up to this Informant swore at him and
told him to stop, and then the two others came up;
and one of them, whom this Informant believes to
be William Smith< no role > alias James Flood< no role > , now [..] in
Toth some PrisonConfinement, knocked this Informant
off the Seal of the Cart, and thenthey stoletwo of them took the Cart
with the Mail in it from this Informant, and drove the