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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n922-1">Thomas Ward</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n922-2">Wisbeach Cambridgeshire</rs>
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Bargeman<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n922-3">William Ward</rs>
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at No 21 Little Mary lebone<lb></lb>
Street Carpenter, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n922-4">William Rowles</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
No 90 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo573">Petty France</rs>
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taken on Oath before me this 10th. day of<lb></lb>
September 1789.</p>
<p n="923">Who being on Oath severally say, and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n923-1">Thomas Ward</rs>
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for himself says that this morning as he was returning<lb></lb>
from the Court Yard at Saint James into<del>the</del>
one of the Narrow<lb></lb>
Passages of the Palace he was Surrounded by a number of<lb></lb>
Persons some of whom shoved him very Violently and picked<lb></lb>
his Pocket of Nine Guineas in Gold<del>and</del>
some Silver<lb></lb>
amounting as he beleives to about Twenty Shillings and two<lb></lb>
Keys all contained in a Purse and from several Circumstances<lb></lb>
he beleives the person now preset who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n923-2">John<lb></lb>
Bains</rs>
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to have been Concerned in the said Felony And the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n923-3">William Ward</rs>
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for himself says that he was with his<lb></lb>
father at this time in the Court Yard <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo575">St. James's</rs>
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where he<lb></lb>
observed the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n923-4">John Baines</rs>
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and two other Men near<lb></lb>
his father and take great notice of him and upon his fathers<lb></lb>
going into the Narrow Passage they followed him and where<lb></lb>
he observed said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n923-5">John Bains</rs>
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shove against his father<lb></lb>
that upon his fathers coming out of the Croud he asked him<lb></lb>
if he had been robbed of his Watch who replied that he had<lb></lb>
not, but that he had been Robbed of his Money and his<lb></lb>
Pocket turned inside out, that upon a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ174">Gentleman</rs>
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who</p>
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