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<p n="2724"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2889">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2724-1">James Pollard</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2890">Broad Sanctuary</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ1138">Carpenter</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2724-2">Thomas Brown</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2891">Stretton Ground</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2892">Westminster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ1139">Pawn broker</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2724-3">Joseph Percival</rs>
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one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ1140">Constables</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2893">Saint John the Evangelist</rs>
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taken this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date467">14th. day of December 1786</rs>
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<p n="2725">Who being on oath severally say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2725-1">James Pollard</rs>
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for himself saith That about six o' Clock<lb></lb>
on Tuesday Evening last as he was going down<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2894">Constitution Hill</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2895">Green Park</rs>
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he was Stop't<lb></lb>
by three Men whom he believes to be the Persons<lb></lb>
was present and calling themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2725-2">John Turner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2725-3">William Jones</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2725-4">Henry Staples</rs>
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who without<lb></lb>
speaking a Word to this Informant immediately<lb></lb>
knock'd him down when upon his screaming out<lb></lb>
''Murder'' one of the said three men seized him by the<lb></lb>
Throat and called to the others ''Kill him" That they<lb></lb>
then searched his Pockets and took thereout the Silver<lb></lb>
watch now produced and also took from him a<lb></lb>
Basket containing a quantity of Carpenters Tools<lb></lb>
amongst which were the following Articles more<lb></lb>
produced vizt. two Saws one Axe and one Anger<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2725-5">Thomas Brown</rs>
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for himself saith That<lb></lb>
he received the said Watch in Pawn for eighteen<lb></lb>
Shillings about eight o' Clock on Tuesday Evening<lb></lb>
last from one of the Persons now present and who<lb></lb>
now calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2725-6">Henry Staples</rs>
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but who at that<lb></lb>
time called himself Henry Millingthorp That he asked<lb></lb>
him how long he had been in Possession of the said<lb></lb>
Watch who told him he had been in Possession of it<lb></lb>
some years and that he won it at a Raffle at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2896">the<lb></lb>
Queens Head</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2897">York</rs>
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<p n="2726">And this Informant further says that about<lb></lb>
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