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<p n="1665"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1096">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1665-1">Arthur Shakespeare</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ364">Esqr</rs>
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. of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1097">Stepney<lb></lb>
Causeway</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1665-2">John Avery</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ365">Servant</rs>
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to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1665-3">Arthur<lb></lb>
Shakespeare</rs>
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. taken before me this 31st. day of<lb></lb>
August 1781</p>
<p n="1666">Who being on Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1666-1">Arthur<lb></lb>
Shakespeare</rs>
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Says that between 12 and 1 in the Morning of Saturday<lb></lb>
the 2nd. of June last as he going in his Chariot to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1098">Stepney Causeway</rs>
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<lb></lb>
he was stopped in a Lane in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1099">Saint George in the East<lb></lb>
near Shadwell</rs>
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and robbed of a Gold Watch, a Chain, four Seals a<lb></lb>
Gold Key, a Hook two Guineas in Money and some Silver by four<lb></lb>
FootpadsSays that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he verily believe a person now present who<lb></lb>
calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1666-2">John Steward</rs>
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is one of the said Footpads who<lb></lb>
robbed him as aforesaidAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1666-3">John Avery</rs>
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Says that<lb></lb>
he was behind his said Masters Carriage during the time he was<lb></lb>
robbed and is very sure that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1666-4">John Steward</rs>
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is<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
one of the four footpads that robbed<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
him of his Watch, Seals &<lb></lb>
Money</p>
<p n="1667"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1667-1">Arthur Shakespeare</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1667-2">John Avery</rs>
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<p n="1668">Sworn before me this <lb></lb>
31st. day of August 1781}</p>
<p n="1669">W Addington</p>
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