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<p n="634"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo426">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n634-1">Abraham<lb></lb>
Wickham</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n634-2">Eleanor Holwell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before Us two of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ136">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="635">Who being severally upon Oath say and first<lb></lb>
this Informant Abraham Wickham for himself<lb></lb>
Saith that he is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ137">Butcher</rs>
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and lives in Bosiers<lb></lb>
Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo427">Tottenham Court</rs>
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read that about Nine<lb></lb>
o'Clock this Morning on his return home from<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo428">Newgate Market</rs>
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he saw the person now<lb></lb>
present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n635-1">John Gardner</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
Company with four or five, other men standing<lb></lb>
in the Gateway of the Hampsherd Yard Saint<lb></lb>
Giles when this Informant on passing by looked<lb></lb>
to see what they had Assembled together for<lb></lb>
when he observed a Stool standing on the<lb></lb>
Gronnst and three Cups on the Stool and<lb></lb>
one of the Men playing with the Cups and<lb></lb>
Some Balls when a Conversation took<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Place with this Informant and one of the<lb></lb>
Men who offered to lay this Informant any<lb></lb>
Money that a Ball was under the Cup<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
when this Informant send he was very certain<lb></lb>
the Ball was not under the Cup pulled three<lb></lb>
Guineas out of his pocket for the purpose of laying a Wager<lb></lb>
when one of the Men immediately Served<lb></lb>
this Informant by the hand and by force<lb></lb>
took the said three Guineas out of his</p>
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