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<p n="2440"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2605">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2440-1">Arthur<lb></lb>
French</rs>
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taken before Us two<del>one</del>
two of<lb></lb>
his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ1051">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="2441">Who being upon Oath saith that, on the<lb></lb>
15th. of November last between Eight and Nine<lb></lb>
o Clock in the Evening as he was going through<lb></lb>
a new Street leading from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2606">Ratcliff highway</rs>
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<lb></lb>
into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2607">Wapping high Street</rs>
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he was feloniously<lb></lb>
Assaulted by four or five Persons who<lb></lb>
used him very ill and by force and Violence<lb></lb>
feloniously took and Carried away from<lb></lb>
his person one Silver Watch One Guinea<lb></lb>
in Gold and one Shilling and one Six pence<lb></lb>
in Silver his property And this<lb></lb>
Informant further upon Oath saith that<lb></lb>
he hath a Strong Suspicion that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2441-1">William<lb></lb>
Bead</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2441-2">Patrick Fitzsimmons</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2441-3">Robert<lb></lb>
Aldridge</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2441-4">Charles Shelton</rs>
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) four<lb></lb>
persons now in Custody) are the persons<lb></lb>
who committed the said Assault and<lb></lb>
felony as above described</p>
<p n="2442">Taken and Sworn before us<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date426">fourth of Decemr. 1786</rs>
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<p n="2443">J. Hawley<lb></lb>
R:Smith</p>
<p n="2444"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2444-1">Anr. French</rs>
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