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<p n="1558"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1098">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1558-1">William Watson</rs>
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taken and made on Oath before me one of his<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ377">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said<lb></lb>
County the fourth day of September 1782</p>
<p n="1559">This Informant Saith That he is Servant to Captain <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1559-1">James<lb></lb>
Best</rs>
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of the Ninety second Regiment of Foot that on Friday the<lb></lb>
Seventeenth day of May<obscured></obscured>
This Examinant in Company with<lb></lb>
his Master, Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1559-2">John Heard</rs>
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deased, and a little Boy went<lb></lb>
about Twenty Minuted after Eleven O'Clock at night from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1099">Old Street</rs>
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towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1100">Islington</rs>
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That near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1101">the Shepherd and Shepherdess</rs>
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they met<lb></lb>
four men three of then appeared to be tall and the other a Short man<lb></lb>
that as soon as they passed them the said four men immediately turned<lb></lb>
back and and presented Weapons to them and demanded their money<lb></lb>
whereupon a Scaffle Ensued amongst them all And this Informant snapt<lb></lb>
a pistol at the Shartest Man and which missed fire, And a Pistol was<lb></lb>
also Snaped at this Informant which also missed fire, That then Mc. Herd<lb></lb>
and Captain Best attempted to make their Escape the boy also ran away and<lb></lb>
this Informant was behind, That two of the men the Shortest and one of the<lb></lb>
tall men Ran on in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
pursuit of Mr. Herd and Captain Best<lb></lb>
That the two others were behind with this Informant one of whom cut this<lb></lb>
Informant Several times with a Hanger or Cutlas and this Informant fell<lb></lb>
down with the Blows, that he was soon afterwards pushed into a ditch<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
but<lb></lb>
raised himself up against the Bank where this Informant was Robbed by a<lb></lb>
Man whom this Informant believes to be <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1559-3">William Milburn</rs>
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the Person admitted<lb></lb>
an Evidence and now here present of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
about Nine shillings and a half penny<lb></lb>
with a particular mark on it, a Soldiers pass and a Bill of Expences at an Inn<lb></lb>
That just at the time this Informant was pushed into the ditch he heard the report<lb></lb>
of a Pistol or Blunderbuss which he believes killed the said Mr. Herd, That soon<lb></lb>
after this Informant was robbed two or three of the persons returned to the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
who had robbed him and then they all went off together. Immediately af<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<del>that</del>
this Informant went on towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1102">Islington</rs>
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about forty or Fifty<obscured></obscured>
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and in the Path way found Mr. Herd lying dead<del>in the</del>
with his<obscured></obscured>
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out. That this Informant then went to the Britania Publickon<obscured></obscured>
at Is<obscured></obscured>
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and desired some persons to go to the spot to bring away the<obscured></obscured>
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and then this Informant went and had his own wounds dressed</p>
<p n="1560">Taken and Sworn the<lb></lb>
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and year above said<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="1561">D Wilmot</p>
<p n="1562"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1562-1">William Watson</rs>
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