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<p n="54"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx}<lb></lb>
to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n54-1">James Taylor</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ30">Sergeant</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Coldstream Regiment of foot Guards in<lb></lb>
Lieutt. Colonel A Court Company taken before<lb></lb>
me this 18th. day of October 1753.</p>
<p n="55">Who being upon Oath says that on Tuesday the 18th. day of September last<lb></lb>
about two o' Clock in the afternoon one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n55-1">Allen Latty</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ31">Private Centinel</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
third Regiment came to this Informant on the Parade in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo60">St. James's Park</rs>
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and told<lb></lb>
him that he wanted to Speak with him concerning <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n55-2">John Hamilton</rs>
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, to which this<lb></lb>
Informant asked the said Allen Latty what was the matter with<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the said<lb></lb>
Hamilton that he had missed his Guard, to which the said Allen Latty replyed<lb></lb>
he the said Hamilton had fallen into an Affray last Night (meaning Monday the<lb></lb>
17th. of September last) in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo61">Drury Lane</rs>
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by being sett upon by a Sett of Villians<lb></lb>
who had Stabb'd him either with a Knife or a Segmiter in two places of his body<lb></lb>
to wit the Breast and the bottom of his Belly, He likewise told this Informant<lb></lb>
that the said Hamilton had lain near twelve hours in he Blood and that he did<lb></lb>
not expect him to live till the next Morning, and therefore desired this Informt.<lb></lb>
to get him into the Infirmary, but this Informant's telling him he could not, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n55-3">Allen Latty</rs>
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went away, And this Informt. further says that the next day<lb></lb>
he went to the house of one Neal in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo62">Parkers Line</rs>
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to Inquire for the said<lb></lb>
Hamilton but not finding him there this Informant found his Regimental Cloathes, And says<lb></lb>
that afterwards he went to the house of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n55-4">Alexr. Kennedy</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo63">Brooks Markett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and there found the said Hamilton concealed in a Closet up <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
two pair of Stairs with his Shoes<lb></lb>
in his hand</p>
<p n="56"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n56-1">James Taylor</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ32">Serjt</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="57">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
this 18th. Octr. 1753}</p>
<p n="58">W Fielding</p>
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