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<p n="143"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo76">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n143-1">Anthony Smith</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n143-2">Bateman Saddington</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this 30th day of August 1769</p>
<p n="144">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the Said the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n144-1">Anthony<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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of himself says that on Tuesday the 15th day of August Instant as<lb></lb>
he this Informant was returning from Barnet he was told by a person in<lb></lb>
a Phaeton upon <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo77">Finchley Common</rs>
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that he the said person had been robbed<lb></lb>
just before by Highway man and that the said Highwayman was still<lb></lb>
in Sight riding away which this Informant pursued him and over took<lb></lb>
him and saw a Pistol taken from him and further says that a person now<lb></lb>
present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n144-2">Joseph Simpson</rs>
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is the Same person that was<lb></lb>
so pursued by this Informant, and the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n144-3">Bateman Saddington</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself Says that he was in Company with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n144-4">Anthony Smith</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
the Time and place aforesaid when they were informed of the said Highway Robbery<lb></lb>
that he also pursued the said Highway man part of the Way, and that he does<lb></lb>
verily believe that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n144-5">Joseph Simpson</rs>
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now present is the person who<lb></lb>
was pointed out to them to be the said Highwayman</p>
<p n="145">Anthy. Smith<lb></lb>
Bateman <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo78">Paddington</rs>
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<p n="146">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
August 30. 1769}</p>
<p n="147">W Kelynge</p>
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