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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n45-1">Thomas Dela Porte</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n45-2">Robert<lb></lb>
Ratford</rs>
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taken on Oath before me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ10">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo40">County of Middlesex</rs>
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this 16th.<lb></lb>
day of December 1782</p>
<p n="46">This Informant Thomas Delaport on his Oath Saith The<del>That</del>
<lb></lb>
on Tuesday the Thirteenth day of August last between the Hours of<lb></lb>
Eight and Nine o'Clock in the Evening as he was going from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo41">London</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo42">Newington</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo43">County of Middlesex</rs>
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by the Stage Coach That he rode<lb></lb>
all the way on the Coach Box and between the Kings head and the Fox<lb></lb>
on the same Road that Evening he was stopped on the Highway by<lb></lb>
five People on foot who robbed him of about Three Guineas in<lb></lb>
money And further Saith That he believes <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n46-1">John Merchant</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
prisoner now under Examination is one of the persons concerned in<lb></lb>
Robbing him as aforesaid, and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n46-2">Robert Ratford</rs>
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Saith<lb></lb>
That he is the driver of the said Coach and was riding therein<lb></lb>
at the time that the said Coach was stopped and Robbed<del>and Stopped</del>
as aforesaid<lb></lb>
and this Informant further says that he was Robbed by the said<lb></lb>
Foot pads of Two Pounds one shilling and six pence and this Informant<lb></lb>
verily believes and suspects that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n46-3">John Marchant</rs>
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is one<lb></lb>
of the persons concerned in the above Robbery of this Deponent<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n46-4">Thomas Dela Porte</rs>
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<p n="47">Taken and Sworn the 16th day<lb></lb>
of December 1782 before<lb></lb>
me}</p>
<p n="48"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n48-1">Thomas Delaporte</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n48-2">Robert Ratford</rs>
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