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<p n="800"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo268">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n800-1">William Taylor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this 13th. day of<lb></lb>
October 1769</p>
<p n="801">Who being upon Oath that he is a Peace officer, that he went<lb></lb>
on Saturday Evening the 30th. of September with several other Peace<lb></lb>
officers to execute a Warrant at the Dolphin in Cook Lane<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo269">Shoreditch</rs>
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, that upon they came into the house the Landlord said<lb></lb>
up Stairs that he immediately went up Stairs, that he met several<lb></lb>
persons on the Stairs who said they had been to say their Money<lb></lb>
and<del>that</del>
desired they would not hurt them,says that when they<lb></lb>
came to the Door of the Room in which the persons were against<lb></lb>
whom the Warrant was granted the same was opened by Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n801-1">John<lb></lb>
Leigh</rs>
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, that it was immediately shut to again and a Curtain drawn<lb></lb>
over the upper part of the Door which was Glass, that a Ball<lb></lb>
was immediately fired through the upper part of the Door from the<lb></lb>
said Room into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45013_geo270">the Passage</rs>
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where this Informant and others<lb></lb>
were, that Mr.Wright the Magistrate was called and that several<lb></lb>
other Pistols or Guns were fired from the said room before Mr.<lb></lb>
Wright could come up Stairs, that the said Mr. Wright asked<lb></lb>
them to surrender and that several Voices in the said Room said<lb></lb>
they would not, says that soon ofterwards the Lenthern which<lb></lb>
hung upon the Stairs was broke by a Shot fired from the said<lb></lb>
Room</p>
<p n="802">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
October 13th. 1769.}</p>
<p n="803"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45013_n803-1">Willm. Taylor</rs>
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