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Informt: had left them, that they had certainely killed him but that he
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had the good fortune to breake Coles sword and by that meanes
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gott cleere from them that night, but said that he thought, that at
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some time or other he should come to some ill End by them, for he
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knew too much of theire tricks, that they were Shopp lifters, Padders
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and given to all manner of villaine, and that they were sometimes
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Jelouse of him;
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And this Informt: further deposeth that about 2 dayes before the said
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Milward was taken ill of the distemper whereof he dyed, he told this
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Informt: that he would come to this Informt: Lodgings and Ease his
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minde and tell this Informt: all; that he was ledd away by these men
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meaneing Cole and Harper, that he would be ruled by this Informt:
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and gett into some honest Inploymt: and bid this Informt: be sure
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to be in the way; But the very day he was to come as he had
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appoynted, the said Cole and Harper, and one Tades (who belongs to
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Drs Commons) gott Milward away to Holloway, where by drinkeing
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some Bottle Ale he was taken wth a Suddaine vomitting and looseness
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wch never left him till he dyed.
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The next day after the said Milward sent for this Informant
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and told this Informt: that there was £30 to receive amongst them
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and that if this Informt: would come againe to see him, he would
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tell this Informt: how it was, and what other things he pmised to tell
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this Informt: at his Lodgings, but the next Morneing he dyed before
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this Informt: could come to him.
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And this Informt: saith that the said Cole owned to
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him, that when
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Milward came to live at the said Coles house, he ye said Coles came &
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lived on this side of the Water, and gave it out that he was gon to
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sea, that when he sent for Milward to come to him, they did use
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to drinke a health to theire freinds as sea, laughing to thinke how
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Cole deceived the World being still in Towney.
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That when Cole and Harper went abroad together Mr Cole went
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for a Dr, and Harper for a Chirnegian this Mr Milward told this
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informant, and when this Informt: hath beene in Company
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wth them they called the said Cole Dr, and he seemed to be pleased wth
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that name.
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Jur 29o die Juny
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1692 coram.
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J Holt
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Joseph Dudley
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