London ss

The Information of John Duxbury< no role > Clerk to Mrs. Thomas
Landgale [..] of Holborn Bridge London Distiller Who
being on Oath Saith that on Wednesday the seventh day
of June Instant above five of the Clock in the in the afternoon he
saw the Prisoner Robert Smille now under Examination
without the Door of the House of the said Thomas Langdale< no role > with a piece
or Bar of Iron in his Hand, and a blue Cockade in his Hat

Says that when the Mob of People which was riotously
[..] assembled before the said Thomas Langdale< no role > House at
Holborn Bridge aforesaid had forced themselves into the said
House he saw the said Robert Smille< no role > in the Midst of the Mob
Says that the said Robert Smille the Prisoner ask'd this Informant
why he opened the Door and let in the Mob, Says that the
Prisoner was assisting to keep out the Mob, that the said Smille
told this Informant, without being asked a Question, that he
had been up the two last nightsays that the said Robert
Smille the Prisioner appeared at the time to be intoxicated
with Liquor, that several Person then told this Informant that the
said Smille, the Prisoner, was second Captain and that he at
first without Doors appeared to be so to this Informant

Taken and Sworn at Guildhall
London 26 June 1780 before me}
Watkin Lewes< no role >

John Duxbury< no role >