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That this Examinant with the said
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Francis Gray
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William Hart
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who is now at Sea and one
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Edmund Powell
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commonly called Justice, now at large some time a little after
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last Christmas in the Field leading from London to
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Hackney
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near the Shoulder of Mutton and Cat attacked three or four
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Gentlemen and a Lady and robbed them of
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four or five Guineas
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and about Forty Shillings in Silver and three Watches, one of
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them in a green Case made flattish but larger in the Circumference
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than most other Watches and appeared to have only a
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one of them a Gold Watch in a
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and a metal Watch in a
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some Person or Persons unknown to this Examinant and the Money
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they sold for parted afterwards amongst all of them
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That one
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John Merchant
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a
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Plaisterer
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who lately lived in
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Lilly Street Saffron Hill
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was concerned with this Examinant
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the said Caddie Stunnel and Gray in robbing the Stage Coach
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and the Hackney Coach in King's land Road about a Month ago
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particularly mentioned in his former Examination and was
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also concerned with them in robbing the
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Chaise near
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about a fortnight ago before also mention
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That this Examinant with the said Caddie and Stunnel in
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some time in August last stopped a Coach and a Gentleman on
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Horseback about eleven o'Clock at Night between the Fox and
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Shoreditch Workhouse in King's land Road. That they did not
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rob any Person in the Coach of any Thing but a few Half pence
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but robbed the Gentleman on Horse back of a Crown piece
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two or three Shillings one or two of which were bad; and
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that Caddie on first stopping the Gentleman on Horse back
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struck him with a Hanger
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That on the same Evening on which Mr. Herd was killed
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but a little before that happened, this Examinant with the
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said Caddie
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Stunnel and Gray stopped a Coach in the
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Road near
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but no person was in the Coach; and
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that on the Coachmans refusing to stop this Examinant
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shot at him with a pistol but they did not rob him
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