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<p n="314"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15003_date51">1692<lb></lb>
June 29</rs>
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The Informacon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n314-1">Joseph Dudley</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15003_geo167">Jerman Streete</rs>
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next<lb></lb>
dore to the signe of ye Last, taken upon oath the<lb></lb>
29th day of June 1692.</p>
<p n="315">This Informant deposeth, That when <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15003_n315-1">Francis Milward</rs>
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came out of the<lb></lb>
Country (wch as nere as this Informant can remember was about the<lb></lb>
latter end of February or begining of March last) he the said Francis<lb></lb>
told this Informant that the reason of his goeing into ye Country was<lb></lb>
to avoyd being taken upp for the Murder of Dr Clinch, he being informerd<lb></lb>
there was a warrt: out agt: him.</p>
<p n="316">This Examint: further deposeth That<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
that about three weekes after<lb></lb>
Mr Harrison was Executed for ye Murder of Dr Clinch, Mr Milward<lb></lb>
sent for this Informt: to Mr Coles house nere the Parke in Southwarke<lb></lb>
where he then Lodged, and then this Informt: and the said Cole and<lb></lb>
one Harper went together to the 2 black posts in the Mint, and there<lb></lb>
the said Milward, Cole and Harper discoursed of theire goeing to Dr<lb></lb>
Clinches house that night he was Murdered, and laughed to thinke<lb></lb>
how Milward beate the Coackman that carryed them to the Blew<lb></lb>
Bores head, and that there was a Granadier and his wife in theire<lb></lb>
Companie, at the Boores head, and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
said that theire business to<lb></lb>
fetch out the Dr was to carry him to see Mrs Milward</p>
<p n="317">This<del>Examinat</del>
Informant further deposeth that the said Milward hath often<lb></lb>
declared to this Informt: that the said Harper and Cole were men<lb></lb>
that followed very ill courses, and that he should never doe well until<lb></lb>
he was gott out of theire ill Companie, for that he found it was not<lb></lb>
safe to be any wages concerned amongst them; but the said Milward<lb></lb>
did never tell this<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Informant that the said Cole or Harper or himself<lb></lb>
wate any wayes concerned in ye Murder of Dr Clinch</p>
<p n="318">The Informt: further deposeth, that some little time before Mr<lb></lb>
Harrison was Executed as aforesaid, this Informt: was in Companie wth is<lb></lb>
said Milward at a house in Moorefeild whether came the said Cole<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Harper one after another who in discourse wth ye said Milward seemed<lb></lb>
distrustfull of him, and they told Milward, that that man was a<lb></lb>
Rogue that betrayed his trust, to wch Milward replyed, that if any<lb></lb>
Pson did relye on him, if it were for Murder he would not discover<lb></lb>
it,<del>but</del>
he would<del>first</del>
be torne Limbe from Limb before he would<lb></lb>
discover him, at these words they seemed to be freinds and shaked<lb></lb>
hands. After this more angry words arose and they often called<lb></lb>
Mr Milward aside<del>to</del>
and whispered to him, and had him forth<lb></lb>
into ye yard for more privacie and when they came into ye roome<lb></lb>
againe, Milward<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
but ye contents of that note this Informt Ruswith not wrote a note and gave it to Cole and<lb></lb>
the disorder they were then in made him this Informt: thinke that<lb></lb>
they designed to Quarrell, soe that this Informt: came away and<lb></lb>
left them,</p>
<p n="319">In a day or two after this, the said Milward told this Informant<lb></lb>
that the said Cole and Harper had<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
sett upon him to Murder or him after this</p>
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