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May 1698

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The Information of William Bromfeild< no role > taken upon
Oath the eighth day of Aprill Anno dmi 1698

Who Saith that on Wednesday last was a month or five weeks on ye highway near
a Mad house Standing on Endfeild Chase about a mile or two on
this Side potters Barr or Bell Barr wth is nearest to London there
was a Robbery comitted on young a Higher about Six of
the clock in the evening that at the Same time there was [..]
from the Said going about Tonn [..] & [..] Five [..]
Shillings in farthings by this Informant Charles Rro & under [..]
Cross That on the Sunday before this Informant was Comitted
on the Com between London & Hump [..]
to Newgate he & ye abovenamed Charles Alexander< no role > wthJohn
Risbond Comitted a Robbery upon a Canceller whose name he
doth not know but is Informed he belongs to Lincolns Inn
yt the Sd Gentlemen was in one Mr Kerts Coach & yt they took
from him a Silver Walch a Steele histed Sword & Silver handled &
Some mony but what quantity he doth not remember That our
the Saturday night before their was Sewall Robberys Comitted
by this Informant Charles Alexander< no role > & one John [..] on
Hinckly Common between Wheyton & Highgate particularly a
Gentleman & his man from whom they tooke as he beleive near
twenty Shillings & Some of the late King James Irish mony made of
Mass yt they committed about Seven Robberys more yt night but it
being darke he doth not Snow who the ye ous were yt was Robbed
nor what Sums of mony there was taken from them That
the day that he was Apprehended the Said Alexander end John
Thompson
< no role > & this Informant robbed Lewath ye Sons at a place called ye
Crabb Cree Oxthard near Stanmore & between Stanmore & Tey [..]
That mr Lambert who way this Inform ye Laud and y [..] that thy
Inform & the king Rleyand who ledges as her [..]
to robb on the highway that the panes her for following [..]
to this Informt & that the helped this Inform to pistelly & that
she was severall for things from sd Alexander & ship Informt
wth sheylad stole & told her sovr.
[..] Coram ine die
[..]
Ruh milner F

Wm. Bromfeild< no role >




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