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<p n="269"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo5">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n269-1">William Monk</rs>
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of the Broat<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo6">Westminster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15086_occ12">Coachmaker</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15086_date4">17th. day<lb></lb>
of December 1774</rs>
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<p n="270">Who being upon Oath says that Yesterday morning he was accosted in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo7">Fleet<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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by a Man whose name he believes to be Broughten and who pretended<lb></lb>
to be a Herefordshire man. Says the said Broughton desired this Informant<lb></lb>
to drink and took him to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo8">Pitts Head</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo9">Old Bailey</rs>
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, that present<obscured></obscured>
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after two men now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n270-1">John Jones</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n270-3">William<lb></lb>
Hennings</rs>
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came the Room in Which this Informant & Broughton<lb></lb>
were that the said Jones & Hennings began to Cut Cards for Money<lb></lb>
that the said Hennings desired this Informant to Join him in betting agt.<lb></lb>
the said Jones which he did and thereby lost four Shillings. that before<lb></lb>
they began to Cut Cards as aforesaid the said Jones said he had been<lb></lb>
to Boldere's the Banker and Receive'd part of a Thousand Pounds.<lb></lb>
this Informant seeing the said Jones possessed of Money and wanting<lb></lb>
Cash for a Bank Note, he took out of his Pocket a Thirty Pound<lb></lb>
Bank Note and laid it down before Jones desiring him to give this<lb></lb>
Informant Cash for it that as soon is he had laid the Note down the<lb></lb>
said Hennings back oned him to come out telling this Informant<lb></lb>
he was ashamed of such Company as Jones. but this Informant sus-<lb></lb>
pected the said Hennings meant to draw this Informant aside whilst<lb></lb>
the said Jones made off with the Note. this Informant did not quit<lb></lb>
the door but returned into the room to Jones again & asked for the<lb></lb>
Cash who began to Equivocate and told him he should have it<lb></lb>
presently that soon after the said Jones Slipt out of the Room<lb></lb>
and ran away. And this Informant further says that the said<lb></lb>
John Jones and William Hennings feloniously Stole his note<lb></lb>
for Thirty Pounds as aforesaid</p>
<p n="271">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
17th. Decemr. 1774}<lb></lb>
M Addington</p>
<p n="272">William Monk</p>
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