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<p n="42"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo23">Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="43">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n43-1">Edward Parker</rs>
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taken before me this 27th.<lb></lb>
day of July 1774.</p>
<p n="44">Who being upon Oath says that he knows <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-1">William Gadsby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-2">William Wickstead</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a man whose name he does not know and one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-3">Henry Jordan</rs>
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. Says that this<lb></lb>
night was a fortnight the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-4">William Gadsby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-5">William Wickstead</rs>
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and this Informant<lb></lb>
robbed Wm. Nettleton (whom he just now saw) between <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo24">Kennington</rs>
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common<lb></lb>
and the swan at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo25">Stockwell</rs>
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of a Silver Watch two or 3 Guineas and some<lb></lb>
Silver says he this Informant sold the said Watch to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-6">Henry<lb></lb>
Jordan</rs>
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whom he met in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo26">Dukes place</rs>
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for fifteen shillings says they<lb></lb>
went from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo27">Newtoners Lane</rs>
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the evening they committed the Robbery and<lb></lb>
drank half a Pint of Gin at a Public house near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo28">Westminster Bridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says he hath been informed that one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-7">Joseph Taylor</rs>
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is now in Custody<lb></lb>
in the New Goal <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo29">Southwark</rs>
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being charged by the said Mr. Nettleton<lb></lb>
as being one of the said three Footpads who had robbed him that he<lb></lb>
utterly denies having the least knowledge of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-8">Joseph Taylor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and that the said Taylor neither knew nor was he privy directly or indirectly<lb></lb>
to the robbery of Mr Nettleton as aforesaid. Says that on a Friday night<lb></lb>
the beginning of this month the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-9">William Wickstead</rs>
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the said Man whose<lb></lb>
name he does not know and this Informant robbed a Man and<lb></lb>
Woman in a Hackney Coach near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo30">Kensington Gravel Pits</rs>
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of a <lb></lb>
Metal Watch Gilt makers name <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-10">John Aldridge</rs>
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No.45," a Silver Seal<lb></lb>
Impression I A, & about 10 shillings, says the said man whose name he<lb></lb>
does not know sold the Seal, and this Informant sold the said Watch<lb></lb>
to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n44-11">Henry Jordan</rs>
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for Eleven Shillings says the said Jordan<lb></lb>
well know the said Watches had been stolen.</p>
<p n="45">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
27th July 1774}</p>
<p n="46"> <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n46-1">Edward Parker</rs>
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