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