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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n42-1">James Eddrup</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ24">Servant</rs>
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to the<lb></lb>
Right Honourable the Earl of Harrington taken<lb></lb>
before me this 26th. day of September 1753.</p>
<p n="43">Who being upon oath Says that he is Servant to the Right<lb></lb>
Honourable the Earl of Harrington and says that on Tuesday was Sennight<lb></lb>
as he was coming with his Lordship to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo42">London</rs>
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form <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo43">Petersham</rs>
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, he was told by<lb></lb>
two or three Men at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo44">Parsons Green</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo45">Fullham</rs>
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, that My Lord<lb></lb>
Harrington Cook had been Robbed and Wounded, the Night before in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo46">Kings Road,</rs>
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Upon which this Informant Acquainted his Lordship with<lb></lb>
what he had heard, And says that when they came to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo47">Bloody Bridge</rs>
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this<lb></lb>
Informant asked the Man of the House if he had heard any thing of My Lord<lb></lb>
Harringtons Cook being Robb'd to which he Annexed he had, and likewise<lb></lb>
heard the Report of two or three Pistolls go off at the time of the Robbery<lb></lb>
And also told this Informant that he saw the Cook Ride by a little after Seven<lb></lb>
the same Evening, Just before the Robbery was Committed, Says that when<lb></lb>
his Lordship came to Town, he said somebody should gee to see the Cook<lb></lb>
and to tell him to have the best Advice that could begett, which this<lb></lb>
Informant Accordingly went, and there found the said Cook Bathing in<lb></lb>
a Tub of Water, Upon which this Informant asked him how he did, to<lb></lb>
which he Replyed very bad, for that he had been Robb'd of Seven Guineas<lb></lb>
and a Half and his Watch in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo48">Kings Road</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo49">Bloody Bridge</rs>
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by two<lb></lb>
Men, Says that this Informant asked the Cook if he did not Draw his Knife<lb></lb>
to which he told him he did and Wounded one of them very much in Severall<lb></lb>
Places Upon which this Informant asked the Cork if he could Recollect<lb></lb>
any Wound he had given in any Particular place, by means of which<lb></lb>
it might probably be found out in their going to the Hospital to be<lb></lb>
Dressed, to which he Answered he had Wounded one more than the other</p>
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