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to<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
The Information of Benjamin Monk at the House of<lb></lb>
Mrs. Neckles near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo346">Shadwell Dock</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n508-1">William Cook</rs>
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at No. 24<lb></lb>
New Street Deptford Rigger<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date105">18th day of Feb. 1787</rs>
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Who being on their Oath say And first The said Benjamin Monk for himself Says<lb></lb>
Last night he went with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n508-2">John Anderson</rs>
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to the Sign of the Ship a Public<lb></lb>
house to drink with Two Women and Some time after he went to the Bar<del>and</del>
<lb></lb>
and gave one of the said Women a Glass of Rum he having a glass of Brandy The said<lb></lb>
Woman left him and went away from him Says he is Certain at<del>that</del>
the Time of the<lb></lb>
said Woman going away which was about the hour of One in the Morning he had to the Amount of Eight or more Shillings and<lb></lb>
a Dollar in his Breeches Pocket and half a Guinea in his fel and in about half and hour afterward the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n508-3">George Anderson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and the other woman left him That being in Liquor he fall asleep and near to the<lb></lb>
hour of Six he awoke and found all his money gone cause the half Guinea Says he is sure One of the Shillings<lb></lb>
produced is his property and that he had the same after the Woman drank the Rum as<lb></lb>
aforesaid and which Shilling he described to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n508-4">William Elbey</rs>
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the Officer who he got<lb></lb>
to go and apprehend<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n508-5">Nicholas James</rs>
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who by the Information of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n508-6">William Cook</rs>
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he suspected to be the person who robbed him</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n509-1">William Cook</rs>
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on his Oath says this Morning between the Hours of Two and<lb></lb>
Three he was in the Tap Room of the said Public house and saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n509-2">Nicholas<lb></lb>
James</rs>
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endeavouring as it seemed to him to awakes the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n509-3">Benjamin Monk</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
were in the next Box to this Informant in the said Room Says when the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n509-4">Benjamin Monk</rs>
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awoke he felt in his Pockets and said he had been robbed<lb></lb>
of all his Monyall but half a Guinea and a broken Six pence which was in his Tob: That<lb></lb>
This Informant told him there had been no person near him but the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n509-5">Nicholas James</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and that it must be the men who had set by him who robbed himSays he told this Informant<lb></lb>
he had lost a remarkable Dollar and a Remarkable crooked Shilling which he had marked<lb></lb>
with his Sheet</p>
<p n="510">Sworn<lb></lb>
The Day and Year abovementioned<lb></lb>
Before me</p>
<p n="511"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n511-1">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n513-1">William<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Cook</rs>
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Mark</p>
<p n="514">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n514-1">Nicholas James</rs>
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says he know nothing about the affair that he was very<lb></lb>
Drunksays he worked hard for the Ten Shillings and Two Six pences pound on him this<lb></lb>
Morning by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n514-2">William Elbey</rs>
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the Officer</p>
<p n="515">The above declaration said to be the Tenth<lb></lb>
and Signed the Day and Year above mentioned<lb></lb>
Before me</p>
<p n="516"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n516-1">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n517-1">Nicholas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
James</rs>
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Mark</p>
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