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<p n="631"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo502">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n631-1">Joseph Birch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n631-2">Richard Spencer</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me One of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ182">Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace</rs>
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for the said County</p>
<p n="632">Who being severally upon Oath say and first<lb></lb>
this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n632-1">Joseph Birch</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
saith that about Seven oClock last Night<lb></lb>
he was on the Road leading to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo503">Finchley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
when the person now present and another<lb></lb>
person not yet taken presented Pistols<lb></lb>
to this Informant demanded his Money<lb></lb>
and feloniously took from him Nine<lb></lb>
Shillings in Silver and then he rode away<lb></lb>
that he went to the Seven, with two Necks<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo504">Finchley</rs>
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and gave Information<lb></lb>
of the above Robbery when this Informant<lb></lb>
with the other Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n632-2">Richard Spencer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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went in pursuit of them and took the<lb></lb>
person now present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n632-3">William Weston</rs>
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on the Road leading to<lb></lb>
<del> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo505">Finchley</rs>
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and further that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n632-4">William Weston</rs>
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is one of the person who robbed<lb></lb>
him as abovedescribed</p>
<p n="633">And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n633-1">Richard Spencer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself saith that in Consequence<lb></lb>
of the above Information he went with</p>
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