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in Colonel Stanhopes
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Company in the first Regiment of Foot Guards
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now in the
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Fletchwell Beaumont
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To Mr. Fleming of
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Drury Lane
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taken before me this
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11th. day of January 1785
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Who being upon Oath say and first the said Robert
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Louth says that about half part 10 oClock in the Night of the
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14th.. day of
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December last as he was coming out of
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the Passage from
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he was Surrounded by several Persons one of whom
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had on a dark brown Coat and cocked Hat who robbed this
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Informant of a gold enamelled Watch and two gold Seals
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The said
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Thomas Chiswick
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says that he was Centinel at this
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time, at the Theatre, and was standing close to the said Robert
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LouthThat he saw two Men rush before the said Robert Louth
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and a person now present who calls himself
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Samuel Davis
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get behind him with another ManThat said Davis pushed
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against the said Robert Louth and the other Men jostled him
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whilst Said Davis (who was then dressed in a brown Coat and
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cocked up Hat) snatched Something from said Robert Louth,
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who immediately called out, that he had been robbed of his
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Watch and said Davis, and other Men ran awayAnd the
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Said
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Fletchwell Beaumont
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says that in the 3rd. and 5th. days
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of January last a Woman whom he knows lives
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and lives in
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Mags Head Court
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and who
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calls herself
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Sarah Crump
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, pawned with him the said Coat &
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Hat, for five Shillings and Six pence, and said that they were
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the property of the said
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Sworn before me this
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11th. day of Janry. 1785}
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Sampr Wright
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Mark
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F
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etchwell Beaumont
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