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The Information of
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18th. day
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Who being upon Oath say that on Sunday Morning the 13th. of October
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1771 they were going from London
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upon the Mail Cart
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in which were several of his Majesty's Mails in which Letters are
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about 7½ Miles
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from London they were stopt by two Men on foot who obliged them to
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get down from the Cart and tied them, and took away the Cart into the
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where the said Cart was forcibly broke
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open and all the said Mails were taken out of it, that whilst the said
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Cart was breaking open one of the said Men who had stopt them as
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aforesaid stood near these Informants to guard them from running
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away and to prevent them from interrupting the person who was break
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open the said Cart, say that some time afterwards when they thought
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the Robbers were gone they untied themselves and went to the said Cart
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when they found the Proof of it broke open and the Mails stolen, and
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this Informant Thomas Eversett for himself says that he does verily
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in one of the persons who committed the said Robbery to wit
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the person who first seized hold of the Horses heads and Stopt them
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Sworn before me
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March 18. 1772}
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Thomas Evarsage
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