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<p n="2266">half Guineas and fifteen Shillings and six pence in Silver.<lb></lb>
And this Informant further says that the said three prisoners were<lb></lb>
in Company together, and from their secretly viewing<lb></lb>
something, which he believes to be the said thirty Pound Bank<lb></lb>
Note) it induced Informant and said Townsend to lay hold<lb></lb>
of them. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2266-1">John Townsend</rs>
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for himself saith that on<lb></lb>
Saturday last about twelve o'Clock as he and Mc Manus were<lb></lb>
going down <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2466">Palace Yard</rs>
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, he saw the said three Prisoner come<lb></lb>
out of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2467">Westminster Hall</rs>
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and walk across <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2468">Palace Yard</rs>
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together,<lb></lb>
that said Wages (who was in the Middle) appeared to have<lb></lb>
something in his Hand, which he and the others were looking at<lb></lb>
That Informant suspecting that they had just Robbed somebody,<lb></lb>
followed them, to the Steps leading to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2469">Bridge Street</rs>
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, when this<lb></lb>
Informant laid held of Wages (who was still in the Middle) and<lb></lb>
asked him what he had got there, who replied " nothing", then<lb></lb>
turned round and put the Thirty Pound Bank Note now<lb></lb>
produced between his Legs, which Note Informant secured,<lb></lb>
and then (with Mc Manus) took all the three Prisoners to a<lb></lb>
Publick House, and in said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2266-4">Davis Greville</rs>
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's pocket found,<lb></lb>
ten Guineas and two half Guineas.</p>
<p n="2267">Sworn before<del>me</del>
us<lb></lb>
the day and Year aforesaid}</p>
<p n="2268">W Addington<lb></lb>
N Bond</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2269-23">George John Dod</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2269-4">Patrick Mc: Manus</rs>
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