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<p n="1073"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo446">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1073-1">Thomas Eversett</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1073-2">John Thomas</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45018_date60">18th. day<lb></lb>
of March 1772</rs>
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<p n="1074">Who being upon Oath say that on Sunday Morning the 13th. of October<lb></lb>
1771 they were going from London <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo447">towards Enfield</rs>
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upon the Mail Cart<lb></lb>
in which were several of his Majesty's Mails in which Letters are<lb></lb>
sent and conveyed by the Post, that at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo448">Houndsfield</rs>
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about 7½ Miles<lb></lb>
from London they were stopt by two Men on foot who obliged them to<lb></lb>
get down from the Cart and tied them, and took away the Cart into the<lb></lb>
field called <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo449">Houndsfield</rs>
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where the said Cart was forcibly broke<lb></lb>
open and all the said Mails were taken out of it, that whilst the said<lb></lb>
Cart was breaking open one of the said Men who had stopt them as<lb></lb>
aforesaid stood near these Informants to guard them from running<lb></lb>
away and to prevent them from interrupting the person who was break<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
open the said Cart, say that some time afterwards when they thought<lb></lb>
the Robbers were gone they untied themselves and went to the said Cart<lb></lb>
when they found the Proof of it broke open and the Mails stolen, and<lb></lb>
this Informant Thomas Eversett for himself says that he does verily<lb></lb>
believe that a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1074-1">Joseph<lb></lb>
Allpress</rs>
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in one of the persons who committed the said Robbery to wit<lb></lb>
the person who first seized hold of the Horses heads and Stopt them<lb></lb>
and that he also thinks that another person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1074-2">Joseph Guyant</rs>
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is the other person who committed the said<lb></lb>
Robbery, and this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1074-3">John Thomas</rs>
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for himself says that<lb></lb>
he does verily believe the the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1074-4">Joseph Allpress</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1074-5">Joseph<lb></lb>
Gnyant</rs>
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are the persons who committed the said Robbery</p>
<p n="1075">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
March 18. 1772}</p>
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<p n="1077">The mark<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of<lb></lb>
Thomas Evarsage</p>
<p n="1078"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1078-1">John Thomas</rs>
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