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<p n="1642"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1077">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1642-1">Charles Mann</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ356">Landlord</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1078">Three<lb></lb>
Compasses</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1079">Mile End Turnpike</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this 31st. day of August 1781</p>
<p n="1643">Who being upon Oath says that at about 11 o Clock in the<lb></lb>
Night of the 13th.. of June last he was stopped in the New Road that<lb></lb>
leads from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1080">Cannon Street</rs>
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to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1081">London Hospital</rs>
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by three Footpads<lb></lb>
one of whom robbed him of a Corkscrew and in the Scuffle (he having<lb></lb>
refused to be robbed) fired a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Pistol at him, the shot or Ball of<lb></lb>
which slightly graced his headSays that he is very sure a<lb></lb>
person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1643-1">John Steward</rs>
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is one of<lb></lb>
the said three Footpads and is the identical person who took<lb></lb>
the Cork Screw out of his pocket and fired the said Pistol at him</p>
<p n="1644">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
31st. day of August 1781}</p>
<p n="1645">W Addington</p>
<p n="1646"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1646-1">Charles mann</rs>
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