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<p n="153"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx. ss.</note>
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The Informacons of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50002_n153-1">Henry Hawkin</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50002_n153-2">Edward<lb></lb>
Davis</rs>
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taken upon Oath before me (whose name<lb></lb>
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is Subscribed) one of their Maties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50002_occ55">Justices of<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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Etc. a in the sd County the 24th. day of Aprill<lb></lb>
Anno Dni 1690.</p>
<p n="154">Who joyntly Say, that they are Feild Keepers to Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50002_n154-1">Edward Fawcet</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50002_geo92">St. Mary Islington</rs>
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in the Said<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
That on the 9th day of this<lb></lb>
Instant about Midnight, as they (according to the<lb></lb>
wonted Manner) were watching the Droves of Sheep<lb></lb>
& other Cattel in their sd Master's Fields, About<lb></lb>
Midnight, they heard the usual Noise, wch. droves of<lb></lb>
Sheep make by Runing, when they are affrighted, or<lb></lb>
disturbed in the might time; Where upon, they, the<lb></lb>
Informts. do further say, That they got up, from the<lb></lb>
place, where they Sale, or lay, & following the Noise,<lb></lb>
made up to the Field - gate; where, they perceived<lb></lb>
two men, who had Catched two fat Sheep (of about<lb></lb>
3th. valer) out of the sd disturbed Drove; & Lead or<lb></lb>
Carried them up to the sd Gate, where, they (as these<lb></lb>
Informts guest, for fear of being discodeing) were<lb></lb>
Lying Closs & Snug upon the sd Sheep on the ground,<lb></lb>
each man upon a Sheep: Where, They, the Informts.<lb></lb>
apprehended one of them, who Confessed himself to<lb></lb>
be a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50002_occ56">Souldier</rs>
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in the Right Honble. Lord Coll. Sidney's Regiment.<lb></lb>
& his name to be <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50002_n154-2">John Bently</rs>
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; And that the other escaped<lb></lb>
in the dark; whose Name, the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50002_n154-3">John Bently</rs>
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<lb></lb>
declared to be; <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50002_n154-4">David Kay</rs>
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, a Souldier also in the<lb></lb>
Sd Regimt. And More, the sd Informts. Say not<lb></lb>
Save that Hethe Sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50002_n154-5">John Bently</rs>
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Confessed the where<lb></lb>
Matter of fact before the Justice of peace.</p>
<p n="155"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50002_n155-1">Henry Hawkin</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50002_n155-2">Edward Davis</rs>
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</p>
<p n="156">Calot. Coram me Die<lb></lb>
A Anno Supradictis<lb></lb>
Tho: Hariot.</p>
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