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James Bowden
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John Bridseye
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Edward Williams
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Joseph Carr
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Robert
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Oats
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, Patrick
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William Parris
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William Mussary
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Benjamin Stewart
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David Sutherland
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William Sherring
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&
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Charles Carey
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taken before me this
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29 day of Jany; 1785
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Who being upon Oath severally say & first
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Joseph Bowden
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for Himself says that He lives at
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Ranelagh
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that one Monday night
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last returning, Home from Town about Half past Twelve o'Clock the
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was Stoped by Five Men in the Road near
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Chelsea Water Works
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who
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demanded his Money threatning to throw Him in the Ditch if the
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refused that they Gifted his Pockets & out of His Coat Pocket took One
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Guinea a Clasp Pen Knife & two pair of Gloves likewise some waste
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Paper amongst which was a Ten Pounds Bank Note which they
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(not perceiving) returned saying they did not want waster paper
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that they took His Buckles out of His Shoes & one of His Knee Buckles
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& with a Knife cut His Stock Buckle from off His Neck that upon
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seeing the Knife He was terribly frightned & desired them not to cut
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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
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the Watchman & informd Him what had happened that they Pursued
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them that the next Watchman joined them & enquiring of the
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at
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Buckingham Gate
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they were informed Five Men
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were just & one by toward
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Westminster
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that they Pursued & in the
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Broadway this Informant saw the said Men & desired the Watch-
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man to Rattle that Four of them were immediately taken & one
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escaped that the Four Men than taken & now present who call
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themselves
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James Wiggan
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Thomas Wiggan
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Joseph Wiggan
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James
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Russel
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are Four of the Five Men who Stop'd & Robb'd this Informant
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as above mentioned that the Two Right Hand Gloves found on
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James
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Wiggan
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& the Two Left Hand Gloves found by Sutherland the Watch-
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man & the part of the Stock & the Buckle & Knife found on
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James
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Russell
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are the Property of this Informant & all taken from him
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when Robb'd
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And Mrs. Bowden for Herself says that the Part of the
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Stock & the Buckle found on
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James Russel
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are the property of
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Her Husband
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Joseph Bowden
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that She worked the Button Holes
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of the said Part of the Stock & that said Monday Morning but the
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Buckle into the Part of the Stock now produced found on the said
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James Russel
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& Buckled it on Her Husbands Neck.
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