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<p n="254"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Midelesex<lb></lb>
to Wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Several Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n254-1">Thomas Nash</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n254-2">Mathew<lb></lb>
Gooding</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n254-3">William Gillard</rs>
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taken upon Oath this<lb></lb>
16 day of Febry. 1782 before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n254-4">Charles Triquet</rs>
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Esquire<lb></lb>
One of his Majestys Justices of the Peace in and for the said<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="255">And first this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n255-1">Thomas Nash</rs>
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for himself saith that<lb></lb>
he is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ71">Watchman</rs>
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belonging to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo183">Parish of Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
And that on Thursday morning last between the hours of five and Six<lb></lb>
oClock as he was on his Beat which is in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo184">Dover Street</rs>
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in the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid, he saw, the Prisoner and another Man. turking about the Street<lb></lb>
in a very, suspicious manner. That after he had done calling the last<lb></lb>
Hour. at six oClock He did not immediately go home. but stay'd in Order to detect<lb></lb>
them. Suspecting they intended Committing some Robbery, after the Watch<lb></lb>
was gone. That in a very little time he saw said two men at the<lb></lb>
Airy of the above said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n255-2">William Gillard</rs>
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very busy in pulling and<lb></lb>
breaking up the Iron Bars in the said Airy. and immediately Seized<lb></lb>
hold of One of the said Men, who calls his Name <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n255-3">William Calley</rs>
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and with the Assistance of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n255-4">Mathew gooding</rs>
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(a Brother <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ72">Watch<lb></lb>
-man</rs>
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) took him to the Watch house, the other Man ran away<lb></lb>
And this Informant Mathew Gooding for himself saith that he<lb></lb>
is a Watchman beloning to the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Parish of Saint George aforesaid<lb></lb>
And That on Thursday Morning last when he<del>do</del>
had<obscured></obscured>
one calling his<lb></lb>
last hour, of Six oClock, and coming down Albermarle<del>Grafton</del>
Street, he was<lb></lb>
called by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n255-5">Thomas Nash</rs>
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, to Assist him, in taking the<lb></lb>
above said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n255-6">William Calley</rs>
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to the Watch house which he did<lb></lb>
Accordingly</p>
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