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<p n="2426"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1591">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2426-1">William Porter</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
on Oath the Eleventh day of December 1789 before<lb></lb>
me one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ483">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1592">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="2427">Who Saith that on Monday night the Seventh December<lb></lb>
Instant between Eleven and Twelve o'Clock he was going<lb></lb>
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home to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1593">Essex Street White Chapel</rs>
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in Company<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Samuel Baston and at the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1594">Bell Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1595">Wentworth Street</rs>
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he saw five men on the opposite<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the way two of whom came up to this Informant and<lb></lb>
without saying a word to him Knocked him down with<lb></lb>
a Stick and left him and went up to Samuel Baston<lb></lb>
who was with him, and the other man who Crossed the<lb></lb>
way with the first man to this Informant then draw a<lb></lb>
Stick from under his Coat and gave him several blows<lb></lb>
about his Shoulders and body and he then left him<lb></lb>
and he saw them Strike the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2427-1">Samuel Baston</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
was with him and then they run away And Saith<lb></lb>
That <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2427-2">Lyon Hart</rs>
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now in Custody<lb></lb>
are two of the above Person who were in Company<lb></lb>
together and beat him and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2427-4">Samuel Baston</rs>
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told this Informant he was Robbed of two<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Shillings</p>
<p n="2428">Taken and Sworn<lb></lb>
the Day and Year<lb></lb>
above Said<lb></lb>
before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2428-1">John Spiller</rs>
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<p n="2429"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2429-1">William Porter</rs>
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