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<p n="64"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx}<lb></lb>
to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n64-1">William Crosby</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ35">Private Continel</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Second Regiment of foot Guards in Colonel<lb></lb>
Clavering's Company, taken before me this 18th. day<lb></lb>
of October 1753.</p>
<p n="65">Who being upon Oath says that on Tuesday the 18th. day of September last one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n65-1">Allen Latty</rs>
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came to this Informant and told him that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n65-2">John Hamilton</rs>
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was hurt<lb></lb>
and desired that he wod. go and See him (He the said Hamilton being then in one<lb></lb>
Neal's house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo67">Parkers Lane</rs>
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) which this Informant did, And says that<lb></lb>
upon his asking the said Hamilton what was the matter the said Hamilton<lb></lb>
answered he had been wounded in an affray which he had in the Street, but<lb></lb>
by whom he could not tell (he the said Hamilton being at that time much in<lb></lb>
Liquor) Says that thereupon he looked at the wounds which the said Hamilton<lb></lb>
had received, which were four in Number, to wit are in his<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Breast, one<lb></lb>
through his Ribbs, one in his Groin, and another in his Shinn Bone, which<lb></lb>
appeared to be given by a two Edged Weapon, about the Breadth of an Inch,<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Says that he Dressed his Wounds, and afterwards carryed him home to<lb></lb>
this Informant's Lodgings, whose he contained all Night, Says that this<lb></lb>
Informant was obliged to go out Soon the next Morning, and upon his<lb></lb>
Return home found the said Hamilton gone from his Lodgings and<lb></lb>
this Informant Suspecting where he was gone, he immediately went to the house<lb></lb>
of one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n65-3">Alexander Kennedy</rs>
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(he said Alexander being with the said<lb></lb>
Hamilton the Night before) and there found him concealed in a Clossett</p>
<p n="66">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
this 18th. October 1753}</p>
<p n="67">W Fielding</p>
<p n="68">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n68-1">Wm.<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Crosby</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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