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<p n="3617"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx<lb></lb>
to Wit}</note>
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The Information and Voluntary Confession<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3617-1">John Howlett</rs>
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. of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2446">Deptford</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2447">County of<lb></lb>
Kent</rs>
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Waterman Admitted an Evidence on his Majestys behalf I taken this 8th. day of<lb></lb>
October 1784 before me One of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ864">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="3618">Who being on his Oath Saith that about Ten O'Clock in the Evening<lb></lb>
of Thursday the 30th. day of September last being then at the<lb></lb>
Causeway of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2448">upper Water</rs>
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Gate at Deptford in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2449">County of<lb></lb>
Kent</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3618-1">John Hennery</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3618-2">Owen Sullivan</rs>
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two prisoners now<lb></lb>
her present applied to him this Informant and asked him<lb></lb>
to Carry them Off on Board the Whit by an Armed Ship then<lb></lb>
lying at the Kings Moorings, to which he Consented<del>and</del>
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<p n="3619">That they then asked him how much he was to have for<lb></lb>
Carrying them Off. When he told them one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3619-1">Penny Each</rs>
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<p n="3620">That they got into the Boat and on her way to the Ship<lb></lb>
they asked Informant of he would Carry them to London<lb></lb>
and as they had a Copper to take to London asked them how<lb></lb>
much he would havewhen he told them three shillings</p>
<p n="3621">That as they were going up the side of the Ship they told him<lb></lb>
they would give him half a Crown. but Informant refusing<lb></lb>
to take that Money. and preparing to got on Shore. they then<lb></lb>
told him they would give him three shillingsWhereupon<lb></lb>
They told him to wait along side the Ship. which he did for<lb></lb>
about the space of one hour when they Lowered the Double<lb></lb>
Copper now produced into hid Boat. and immediately afterwards<lb></lb>
the Iron Boat Grapnell likewise now produced. and which being<lb></lb>
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