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<p n="2937"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2215">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2937-1">Isaac Carr</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ848">Carpenter</rs>
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of the Amilyn Desire a Collier<lb></lb>
now lying at Deptford Captain Reid<lb></lb>
Commander<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Taken this 17th. day of<lb></lb>
November 1783 before us two of his<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ849">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and<lb></lb>
for the said County.</p>
<p n="2938">Who being upon Oath Saith that between Ten<lb></lb>
and Eleven OClock on Thursday night last being then<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2216">Wapping new Stairs</rs>
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Two Watchman who were at the<lb></lb>
Landing asked him if he wanted a Skuller when he<lb></lb>
told that he did to put him on Board his <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2217">Ship Nancy</rs>
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which lay Opposite to the above Stairs. That he then<lb></lb>
agried with them to give them three pence to put him<lb></lb>
Off. and went into the Beat but had not get the<lb></lb>
distance of between Twenty and Thirty yards from<lb></lb>
the Shore and About the same distance above the<lb></lb>
Stairs when the sher<obscured></obscured>
of the said Two Men Putted out<lb></lb>
assisted from underneath his Jacket of the left side Put<lb></lb>
it else against his <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2938-1">Forehead drew</rs>
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the Grigger so that it Flasket<lb></lb>
and had it went Off must inevitably turn Killed him, at<lb></lb>
which Instant he said to Informant Deliver your<lb></lb>
Mony or Fl Blow your Brains out. That he then<lb></lb>
took from his right hand Breeches Pocket Tur Guineas in<lb></lb>
Gold and two Shillings in Silver as also his Watch out<lb></lb>
of his Feb. That Informant being then much agitated<lb></lb>
and in great Ferror requested of them to Spare his life<lb></lb>
to which they replied that if he did not go out of the<lb></lb>
Boat without Speaking a Word he should he a Dead Man<lb></lb>
By this time they had Rowed the Boat towards the Shore<lb></lb>
again, and Informant desired them to let him go out<lb></lb>
guilty and he woulds, that he then got up I having been<lb></lb>
Seated all the time abovementioned) in order to be ready<lb></lb>
to go out of the Boat so soon as it should come near so the<lb></lb>
Land</p>
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