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The Information of Benjamin Monk at the House of
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to the Sign of the Ship a Public
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house to drink with Two Women and Some time after he went to the Bar
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on his Oath says this Morning between the Hours of Two and
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awoke he felt in his Pockets and said he had been robbed
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of all his Monyall but half a Guinea and a broken Six pence which was in his Tob: That
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and that it must be the men who had set by him who robbed himSays he told this Informant
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he had lost a remarkable Dollar and a Remarkable crooked Shilling which he had marked
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