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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n355-1">Thomas Knight</rs>
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<lb></lb>
an Evidence against <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n355-2">James Bixby</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n355-3">Thomas Joyce</rs>
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for Felony taken upon Oath<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n355-4">William Blackborow</rs>
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. One of<lb></lb>
His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ146">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in &<lb></lb>
for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date68">21st. day of January<lb></lb>
One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Six</rs>
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<p n="356">This Informant upon his Oath saith that he is a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ147">Servant</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n356-1">Thomas Ford</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo389">Sharps Alley</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo391">Saint Sepulchre</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo392">County of Middlesex</rs>
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That on Thursday last the Nineteenth day of January instant<lb></lb>
at about the hour of Six of the Clock in the Evening this<lb></lb>
Informant went into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo393">the Crown Public House</rs>
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the Corner<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo394">Sharps Alley</rs>
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aforesaid that the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n356-2">James Bixby</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was in Company with the other Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n356-3">Thomas Joyce</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
two Women that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n356-4">James Bixby</rs>
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asked this<lb></lb>
Informant to Drink with them which he did and sat in<lb></lb>
the Box with them that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n356-5">James Bixby</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
asked this Informant if his Master could not be done<lb></lb>
meaning could he not be Robbed and if he this Informant<lb></lb>
would Assist that he should have his Share of the Money<lb></lb>
that the Goods taken Should sell for That this Informant<lb></lb>
agreed to go home and unfasten a Back Window of his Masters<lb></lb>
House that they might get in without noise and that -<lb></lb>
they might take away a Quantity of Cloth which was<lb></lb>
in a Box in the said Room that this Informant Did<lb></lb>
then go home and went up Stairs in Company with<lb></lb>
his Masters Son about the Age of Ten Years that he<lb></lb>
went to the Window under a pretence of making it fast<lb></lb>
and instead thereof he pulled out a Skewer with</p>
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