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<p n="2412"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1578">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2412-1">Samuel Basten</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
on Oath the Eleventh day of December 1789 before<lb></lb>
me one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ480">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1579">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="2413">Who Saith that on Monday night the Seventh of December<lb></lb>
Instant between Eleven and twelve OClock he was going<lb></lb>
with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2413-1">William Porter</rs>
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from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1580">Monkwell Street</rs>
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London to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1581">Essex Street</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2413-2">Mary White</rs>
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Chapel<lb></lb>
and at the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1582">Bell Lane</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1583">Wentworth Street</rs>
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there<lb></lb>
were five or Six men on the opposite side the way when<lb></lb>
two of them Crossed the way and went up to Porter and<lb></lb>
Struk him with a Stick immediately Informant called<lb></lb>
out Bill what's the matter, then another man came<lb></lb>
up to this Informant and seized held of him, and<lb></lb>
Informant threw him down, Then he call out again<lb></lb>
to Bill and said he had get him down but received<lb></lb>
no Answer, the man he had down hollowed out, and<lb></lb>
then a Person came up to him and cut him with<lb></lb>
a Weapon on his head<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
some thing like a Cutlass<lb></lb>
which he took from under his Cloaths, then he was<lb></lb>
Struck again upon his Cheek by another with a<lb></lb>
Stick, The blows he received from them quite<lb></lb>
made him senseless for some time and soon after he<lb></lb>
saw two of them go away and found he had been<lb></lb>
Robbed of two Shillings out of his Breeches Pockett<lb></lb>
And Saith That <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2413-3">Lyon Hart</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2413-4">Emanuel Marks</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now under Examination are two of the men that ill<lb></lb>
treated and Robbed him in manner abovementioned</p>
<p n="2414">Taken And Sworn<lb></lb>
the Day and Year<lb></lb>
above Said before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2414-1">John Spiller</rs>
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<p n="2415">The mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n2415-1">Samuel Basten</rs>
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