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<p n="3540"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2400">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3540-1">Robert Currie</rs>
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of No. 11 in <lb></lb>
the Crescent in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2401">the Minories</rs>
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, Stewards of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2402">Ship Venus</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3540-2">William Buncomb</rs>
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of the same<lb></lb>
place Captain of the said Ship Venus, and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3540-3">Patrick Mc Manus</rs>
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taken before me this 19th<lb></lb>
day of October 1784.</p>
<p n="3541">Who being upon Oath say, and First the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3541-1">Robert Currie</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that in the Night of Friday the 8th: of October instant<lb></lb>
a Number of Persons armed with Pistols and Cutlasses came<lb></lb>
on board the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2403">ship Venus</rs>
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lying upon a certain Navigable river<lb></lb>
in the said County called the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2404">River Thames</rs>
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; That two of said<lb></lb>
Persons forced their way into the Cabbin where this Informant<lb></lb>
was then lying in his Cot leaving a third on the outside of the<lb></lb>
Cabbin Door- That they told this Informant if he spoke<lb></lb>
a Word they would blow his Brains out and ordered him<lb></lb>
to lie stile; That said Men Robbed said ship of four Trunks<lb></lb>
containing a pair of Paste Knee buckles set in Silver now produced a Silver<lb></lb>
Stock Buckle a Gold Ring a Quantity of Wearing Apparel and other things the<lb></lb>
Property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3541-2">William Buncomb</rs>
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; And further says that<lb></lb>
he is very sure that a person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3541-3">George Wood</rs>
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is one of the persons<del>and</del>
that stood at the Cabbin<lb></lb>
Door and Robbed the said Ship; and that he doth verily believe<lb></lb>
SW. from the Voice that a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3541-4">William Giles</rs>
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is<lb></lb>
SW. another of the persons who robbed the said Ship that the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
stood in the Cabbin<lb></lb>
threatning to blow his Brains out<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
S. W,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3541-5">Williams<lb></lb>
Buncomb</rs>
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says that he is very sure that the said pair of Paste<lb></lb>
Knee buckles are his property and were Stolen from on board<lb></lb>
the said Ship together with the other Articles as aforesaid.<lb></lb>
And the said Patrick Mc Manus says that on Tuesday evening<lb></lb>
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the 12th instant, he apprehended the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3541-7">George Wood</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3541-8">William Giles</rs>
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at the Jolly sailor in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2405">Back Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2406">Ratcliffe<lb></lb>
Highway</rs>
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- That he found in the hand of said Giles one of the<lb></lb>
said Paste Knee Buckles and the other Buckle was lying on the</p>
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