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The Information of
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November 1781
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Saith that about three o clock on Thursday Evening the seventeenth
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, he
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was accosled by a Person, who he hath since been informed, is named
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Smith who entered into Conversation with Informant about a Mr Cook
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of Crayford in Kent, a Person will known to Informant, that Smith told
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Informant said Mr Cook was to send him some Psalm Books with
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the new Version, and requested Informant would call upon him when
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he went home to remind him thereof, which he promised to do, and
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desired the said Person to inform him his Name, which he as first
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declared doing, but afterwards say'd, that if informant would go with
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him into the Swan Public House on Fish Street Hall he would give
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Informant a Note to call on said Mr Cook, that Informant therefrom
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went in with Smith and was introduced by him into a Room where
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he sat down and was asked by Smith what he would drink, that
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Informant answered a Gile of Wine, which was called for and half a
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Pint of Wine was brought in by the Waiter whom Smith desired to
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bring him Penn Ink and Paper which was also brought and
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immediately afterwards came into the Room one West and the Prisoner
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who askt if Informant and Smith were engaged on
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business, that Informant replied they were not; whereupon west and
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Symonds sat down and Orderd some Liquor, that West then clapt Symmonds
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on the Shoulder and sayd that he should not have known him on account
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of his being dressed in Morning where he saw him before which
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west sayd was about six Weeks ago, that west then addressed himself
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to Smith and Informant and told them that Symmonds had an Uncle
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who
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abwad and had left him a considerable Fortune and that he
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was in Possession of Five hundred Pounds past thereof which he was
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spending as past as he could and that he had been the Night before as
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the Swan and two Necks in
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where he had drank very
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plentiful of Wine and Brandy, That west then turned to symmonds
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and askt him how his Head was and how foolishly he had last his Money
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