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<p n="402"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo437">Middlesex</rs>
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(to Wit)</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n402-1">Elizabeth Vincent</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo438">the Town house</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo439">Poplar</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ158">Widow</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n402-2">William Poplar</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo440">Limehouse Corner</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo441">Saint Ann</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo443">Green Grocer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n402-74">John Baist</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo444">Lime house Corner</rs>
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Aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ159">Bricklayer</rs>
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Taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date80">17th. day of February 1786</rs>
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before me One of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ160">Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="403">Who being on<del>her</del>
their Oaths say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n403-1">Elizabeth Vincent</rs>
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for herself saith that as she was going from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo445">Limehouse</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo446">Poplar</rs>
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about<lb></lb>
Seven O Clock last night, about fifty yards on this side the two Blue Parts on<lb></lb>
<del>Stepney</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo447">Limehouse Causeway</rs>
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a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n403-2">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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stood<lb></lb>
up against one of the houses on the Causeway and as she came past him he rushed<lb></lb>
out upon her and without saying a Word forcibly took the Cloak from her now<lb></lb>
produced. That Informant then immediately called out for, help when <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n403-3">William<lb></lb>
Pomfret</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n403-52">John Baist</rs>
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came to her Assistance. That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n403-4">William Pomfret</rs>
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<del>and</del>
delivered the Cloak to<lb></lb>
her and<del>and secured</del>
the said Robinson was secured by said Pomfret and Baist and taken to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo448">Limehouse Watchhouse</rs>
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The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n403-6">William Pomfret</rs>
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for<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
himself saith that as he was coming up<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo449">Limehouse Causeway</rs>
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a little after seven O Clock last night he heard a woman cry out<lb></lb>
Murder, and immediately he went to her Assistance and when he got to her he<lb></lb>
found the Informant John Baist just before him who had secured the prisoner<lb></lb>
and in a very short time after the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n403-85">John Waist</rs>
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delivered the Cloak to this Informant. That when he first saw the<lb></lb>
Informant Vincent she seemed much Agitated and frightened and said she<lb></lb>
had been robbed of her Cloak, and wished to have her Clock restered to her whereupon<lb></lb>
Informant delivered the Cloak to her and he with the Informant Baist took the<lb></lb>
Prisoner to the Watch house at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo450">Limehouse</rs>
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and there Lodged him for security<lb></lb>
The said John Baist for himself Saith that as he was Coming up <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo451">Limehouse<lb></lb>
Causeway</rs>
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between seven and Eight o Clock last night he heard the Informant<lb></lb>
Vincent cry out Murder Twice which first him rather to a stand but<del>and</del>
perceiving by a<lb></lb>
Light<del>which he there saw</del>
the said Mrs. Vincent advancing towards him and secing her much<lb></lb>
Frightened she advanced towards her when she cried out and sayed the man has<lb></lb>
robbed me of my Cloak which she repeated and<del>she</del>
on his slepping forward<del>she</del>
Informant perceived<lb></lb>
the prisoner clase by the door of a Mr. Carr and when Informant went up to him<lb></lb>
he seemed to be much Frightened and seized. I have been robbed the Man has robbed<lb></lb>
me. when Informant Suspecting him to be the person who had robbed the<lb></lb>
Woman he secured him at which time Informant Pomfret came to his Assistance<lb></lb>
and as they were bringing him towards the Watch house at the distance of about<lb></lb>
Ten Yards from where he was taken he trod upon something with his Feet and<lb></lb>
on Stooping down found it was the Cloak which he took up and delivered to<lb></lb>
Informant Pomfret who delivered the same to Informant Vincent after which<lb></lb>
the prisoner was taken to the Watchhouse at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo452">Limehouse</rs>
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<p n="404">Taken and Sworn the day<lb></lb>
and Year first above written<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="405"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n405-1">Peter Greene</rs>
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</p>
<p n="406">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n406-1">Elizabeth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Vincent</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="407">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n407-1">William<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Pomfret</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="408"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n408-1">John Baist</rs>
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