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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n1-1">Thomas Hardy</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15068_date3">8th. day of January 1757</rs>
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<p n="2">Who being upon Oath says that on the 6th. day of this Incident January he<lb></lb>
went on board the Hunter Tender lying off <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15068_geo1">the Tower</rs>
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, and there saw <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n2-99">William<lb></lb>
Martin</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15068_occ1">Impressed Man</rs>
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on board the said Tender, who deined this<lb></lb>
Informant to go to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15068_geo2">Newgate</rs>
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to deliver to one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n2-1">George Jeffries</rs>
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then a<lb></lb>
Prisoner a Particular Messages, which was, That he meaning she said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n2-2">William Martin</rs>
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was Pressed, therefore could not do she affair<lb></lb>
himself, But that this Informant would do as well, Upon<lb></lb>
which this Informants went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15068_geo3">Newgate</rs>
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and there saw the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n2-3">George Jeffries</rs>
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, And told him what Martin had said,<lb></lb>
Upon which she said suppries askd this Informant if he might<lb></lb>
be depended upon, To Which he answered Ye's, And this<lb></lb>
Informant says that at the time When he saw Jeffries, a Person<lb></lb>
now Present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n2-4">Charles Buttler</rs>
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, came into<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15068_geo4">the Tapp</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15068_geo5">Newgate</rs>
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, When this Informant, and the said<lb></lb>
Jeffries<del>who</del>
were, And the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n2-5">Charles Buttler</rs>
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askd. the said<lb></lb>
Jeffries who he was (meaning this Informant) to which he<lb></lb>
answered an said, he is an honest Fellow, and may be depended<lb></lb>
upon, Says that after drinking all Bottle of Wine in Company<lb></lb>
with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n2-6">George Jeffries</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n2-7">Thomas Hardy</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15068_geo6">Bathall</rs>
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, and two others,<lb></lb>
they all went up Stairs together, when Jeffries ask'd this Informant<lb></lb>
if it was Possible to get thro' that Window, pointing at a Window<lb></lb>
in the Tapp Room, saying that was the Window that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n2-36">Jack<lb></lb>
Shepperd</rs>
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made his Escape, To Which this Informant told him,<lb></lb>
he thought it was impossible, by that he had nothing to do but to<lb></lb>
plead Guilty & put himself upon the Henry of this Court, And<lb></lb>
this Informant says that notwithstanding which she said Jeffries<lb></lb>
said there was a Possibilaty of making their Escape in the<lb></lb>
Lodge whilst they where at Dinner by lying the People in this<lb></lb>
Lodge and letting themselves out, Says that therefore the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15068_n2-8">Thomas Hardy</rs>
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call's this Informant aside by the doesnt of Jeffries<lb></lb>
to make this Informant a Christian, And took him up Stairs an<lb></lb>
the Masters side and or Presence to one a Jackett, And when they<lb></lb>
came there the said Hardy show'd him a Box in which was<lb></lb>
a Beace of Pistols, with some other things wraped in a Cloath</p>
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