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The Information of Elizabeth the wife of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3461-2">John Smith</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2350">Church Street</rs>
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in the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2351">Saint Ann</rs>
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Gardenor Taken<lb></lb>
this first day of October 1784 before us<lb></lb>
two of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ835">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="3462">Who being on her Oath saith the about seven<lb></lb>
O Clock in the Evening of Thursday the Twenty third day<lb></lb>
of September last being then in Hackney Coach<lb></lb>
she was stopped by two men mar <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2353">Stepney Church</rs>
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naked<lb></lb>
Cutlasses demanded her Money. Watch and Rings<lb></lb>
and<del>after</del>
sayed your Money or your Life. Whereupon<lb></lb>
Informant gave one of the said two men one shilling<lb></lb>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ836">Coachman</rs>
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to drive on<lb></lb>
a fast as he could. And this Informant lastly<lb></lb>
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is one of the<lb></lb>
said two Men who Stopped the said Coach Put her<lb></lb>
in Bodily fear and danger of her life and robbed<lb></lb>
her as above mentioned</p>
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and Year first above written before<lb></lb>
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Smith</rs>
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Mark</p>
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