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<p n="138"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo74">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n138-1">Edward Snape</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n138-2">Alexander<lb></lb>
Marks</rs>
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taken before me this 23d. day of August 1769</p>
<p n="139">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n139-1">Edward Snape</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself says that on Tuesday the 15th. day of August Instant a little<lb></lb>
after 8 o'Clock he was robbed near the 7 Mile Stone upon <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo75">Finchley<lb></lb>
Common</rs>
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by a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45013_occ15">Single Highwayman</rs>
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of a half Guinea and two half Crowns<lb></lb>
says that he saw Some Gentleman Coming up to whom he gave an<lb></lb>
Account of the said Robbery says that he believes they pursued the<lb></lb>
said Highwayman, and the said Alexander Marks for himself says<lb></lb>
that he was returning from Barnet Raw on Tuesday Evening the<lb></lb>
15th. Instant he saw some Gentleman pursuing a Man & crying out<lb></lb>
Stop the Highwayman upon which he also pursued, that after riding<lb></lb>
Some Distance he picked up a Pistol at the Place where the Prisoner<lb></lb>
now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n139-2">Joseph Simpson</rs>
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was apprehended and<lb></lb>
that he saw a Constable take a half Guinea and two half Crowns<lb></lb>
from the person of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n139-3">Joseph Simpson</rs>
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, and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n139-4">Edward<lb></lb>
Snape</rs>
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for himself further says that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n139-5">Joseph Simpson</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
Present is very much like the Man who robbed him as aforesaid</p>
<p n="140"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n140-1">Edward Snape</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n140-2">Alexander Marks</rs>
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<p n="141">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
August 23d. 1769.}</p>
<p n="142">W Kelynge</p>
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