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<p n="41"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo56">Old Bailey</rs>
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July Session 1786</note>
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<p n="42">The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n42-1">Thos. Lake</rs>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo57">Middlesex</rs>
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The Prisoner was committed to Newgate on the 23d. of January last charged<lb></lb>
upon the Oaths of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n42-2">George Slater</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n42-3">John Morrill</rs>
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for being Accessary after Fact that is to say<lb></lb>
by relieving comforting and assisting one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n42-4">John Lake</rs>
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well Knowing the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n42-5">John Lake</rs>
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to have<lb></lb>
feloniously assaulted <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n42-6">George Slater</rs>
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on the Kings Highway in the County of the Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo58">Hull</rs>
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on the<lb></lb>
2d. January 1786 put him in Fear and Feloniously taken from his Person a certain Mail called the<lb></lb>
Hull Mail in which Letters were sent and conveyed by the Post containing several Letters Packets<lb></lb>
Bags and Mails of Letters See a Copy of the Committment annexed.</p>
<p n="43">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n43-1">John Lake</rs>
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was at the same time Committed to the said Goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo59">Newgate</rs>
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For<lb></lb>
the said Felony but is since dead in that Prison previous to his being tried</p>
<p n="44">Upon Apprehending the Prisoner there were found upon him a Silver Watch<lb></lb>
a Lincoln Bank Note For £10,,0,,0 and a Hull Bank Note for Nine Guineas and Nine<lb></lb>
Guineas and 13s/6d in Money.</p>
<p n="45">The Watch was Purchased by the Prisoner of one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n45-1">John Morritt</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ23">Pawn broker</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo60">Aldersgate<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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in Paymt. for which he gave a Bill of Exchange for £25. Dated Sheffield Decr. 10. 1785<lb></lb>
drawn by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n45-3">Gilbert Dedsbury</rs>
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upon Messrs. R. and J. Harrison London Payable to Messrs. Stainforth and<lb></lb>
Haystrop or Order and by them indorsed thus. "Pay the Contents to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n45-4">Wm. Holmes</rs>
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or Order Value<lb></lb>
"in Accot. with Stainforth and Haystrop or Order"</p>
<p n="46">The Bill was sent in a Letter by the Post from Messrs. Stainforth and Haystrop of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo61">Sheffield</rs>
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to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n46-2">Wm. Holmes</rs>
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of Hull (to whom the Bill is endorsed Payable) on the 3st. Decr. last, and was<lb></lb>
in the Mail at the time it was robbed</p>
<p n="47">The Lincoln Bank Note of £10. and the Hull Bank of Nine Guineas were also<lb></lb>
in the Mail at the time that it was robbed.</p>
<p n="48">As the Principal is dead Previous to his Tryal no Prosecution can be carried on against the<lb></lb>
Accessary, and therefore you will Please to move the Court that he may be discharged out of Custody,<lb></lb>
and that the Watch may be delivered up to Mr. Morritt, who has not been able to obtain Payment<lb></lb>
of the Bill by reason of its not having been indorsed by Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n48-1">Wm. Holmes</rs>
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to whom it was made payable</p>
<p n="49">It will be necessary to ask the Direction of the Court that the Lincoln Bank Note of<lb></lb>
£10and the Hull Bank Note of Nine Guineas may be retained ny Mr. Parkin Soliciter to<lb></lb>
the Post Office in Order to be restored to the Owners.</p>
<p n="50">The Money Found<del>Found</del>
upon the Prisoner and now in the Hands of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n50-48">Thos. Carpmeal</rs>
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<lb></lb>
one of the Officers of the Police in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo62">Bow Street</rs>
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, may it is Presumed be Ordered to be delivered<lb></lb>
up to the Prisoner</p>
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