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The Informations of Sarah Atkinson< no role > of
Kentish Town Spinster Mary Naylor< no role > of the same
place Spinster , Francis Underwood< no role > of No 228.
High Holborn , Thomas Harrison< no role > of Kentish Town
Labourer , and William Waters< no role > of the same place
Labourer taken on Oath before me this 23rd. day
of July 1789.

Who being on Oath severally say and first the said
Sarah Atkinson< no role > for herself says that on her Return from London
to Kentish town in Company with the said Mary Naylor< no role > about
half an four past eight o Clock in the Evening of Yesterday near
the Old Work house between Saint Pancras Church and Kentish town
they met the two persons now present who call themselves John
Price
< no role > and William Poynton< no role > who went from off the foot path to let
this Informant and the said Mary Naylor< no role > pass Immediately after
the tallest man who calls himself John Price< no role > came and Stood before
this Informant and held something in his hand which appeared to
her to be a Pistol and told her to make haste Informant desired
he would give her time to take Off her Glove and she would
give him what money she had, that this Informant then gave
him a red Morocco purse containing a Crown Piece one Silver four
pence one Silver two pence one Silver Penny two Shillings and
a dollar that Informant requested he would let her take out the
Dollar as it was given to her by a friend which he made no
objection to and she accordingly took it out, that the other
man William Poynton< no role > during this time was with the said Mary
Naylor
< no role > and upon a Gentleman now present [..] named Francis
Underwood
< no role > coming in Sight the said two Men ran away And this
Informant further says that the Crown Piece Silver four pence
Silver two pence and Silver penny now produced She verily beleives to be the
same she was so Robbed of as aforesaid, And the said Mary
Naylor
< no role > for herself says that she was in Company with the said
Sarah Atkinson< no role > Returning from London, that the said Persons now




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