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<p n="22"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo14">Westminster</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-1">Joseph Bowden</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-2">James Bowden</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-99">John Bridseye</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-3">Edward Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-4">Joseph Carr</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-45">Robert<lb></lb>
Oats</rs>
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, Patrick<obscured></obscured>
, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-5">William Parris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-78">William Mussary</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-6">Benjamin Stewart</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-7">David Sutherland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-8">William Sherring</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n22-9">Charles Carey</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date7">29 day of Jany; 1785</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="23">Who being upon Oath severally say & first <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n23-1">Joseph Bowden</rs>
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for Himself says that He lives at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo15">Ranelagh</rs>
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that one Monday night<lb></lb>
last returning, Home from Town about Half past Twelve o'Clock the<lb></lb>
was Stoped by Five Men in the Road near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo16">Chelsea Water Works</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
demanded his Money threatning to throw Him in the Ditch if the<lb></lb>
refused that they Gifted his Pockets & out of His Coat Pocket took One<lb></lb>
Guinea a Clasp Pen Knife & two pair of Gloves likewise some waste<lb></lb>
Paper amongst which was a Ten Pounds Bank Note which they<lb></lb>
(not perceiving) returned saying they did not want waster paper<lb></lb>
that they took His Buckles out of His Shoes & one of His Knee Buckles<lb></lb>
& with a Knife cut His Stock Buckle from off His Neck that upon<lb></lb>
seeing the Knife He was terribly frightned & desired them not to cut<lb></lb>
his Throat that one of them field something over this Insts Steal & threatned to knock being down if he made a noise they than left Him & went toward Town that the called<lb></lb>
the Watchman & informd Him what had happened that they Pursued<lb></lb>
them that the next Watchman joined them & enquiring of the<lb></lb>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo17">Buckingham Gate</rs>
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they were informed Five Men<lb></lb>
were just & one by toward <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo18">Westminster</rs>
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that they Pursued & in the<lb></lb>
Broadway this Informant saw the said Men & desired the Watch-<lb></lb>
man to Rattle that Four of them were immediately taken & one<lb></lb>
escaped that the Four Men than taken & now present who call<lb></lb>
themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n23-2">James Wiggan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n23-3">Thomas Wiggan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n23-4">Joseph Wiggan</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n23-5">James<lb></lb>
Russel</rs>
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are Four of the Five Men who Stop'd & Robb'd this Informant<lb></lb>
as above mentioned that the Two Right Hand Gloves found on <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n23-6">James<lb></lb>
Wiggan</rs>
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& the Two Left Hand Gloves found by Sutherland the Watch-<lb></lb>
man & the part of the Stock & the Buckle & Knife found on <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n23-7">James<lb></lb>
Russell</rs>
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are the Property of this Informant & all taken from him<lb></lb>
when Robb'd</p>
<p n="24">And Mrs. Bowden for Herself says that the Part of the<lb></lb>
Stock & the Buckle found on <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n24-1">James Russel</rs>
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are the property of<lb></lb>
Her Husband <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n24-2">Joseph Bowden</rs>
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that She worked the Button Holes<lb></lb>
of the said Part of the Stock & that said Monday Morning but the<lb></lb>
Buckle into the Part of the Stock now produced found on the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n24-3">James Russel</rs>
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& Buckled it on Her Husbands Neck.</p>
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