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<p n="1335"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo659">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1335-1">Robert Nicholson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ193">Mariner</rs>
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belonging to the Prince of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo660">Wales</rs>
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a Vessel in the<lb></lb>
Dublin Trade, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1335-2">William Briscoe</rs>
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Commander<lb></lb>
taken before me this 28th. day of June<lb></lb>
1768</p>
<p n="1336">Who being upon Oath says that last Sunday Night about<lb></lb>
11 o'Clock as he was going from a Public House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo661">Black<lb></lb>
house Yard East Smithfield</rs>
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to go to his Ship he was stopped in the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo662">Black house yard</rs>
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by a Boy who asked him what he had in his pockets<lb></lb>
that he pushed the said Boy away upon a which a Man came up<lb></lb>
immediately and knocked this Informt. down and helds his hands<lb></lb>
over his face & said that if he spoke a Word he would cut this<lb></lb>
Informant's Throat, and that another person rifled his pockets &<lb></lb>
took out a Guinea Quarter Guinea & some Silver and went<lb></lb>
away, that after some Time a Watchman came to him with whom<lb></lb>
he went to the Watch house, and this Informant further says that<lb></lb>
he does suspect and verily believe that a Boy now present who<lb></lb>
calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1336-1">Francis Sullivan</rs>
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is the same Boy who stopt<lb></lb>
him in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo663">Black house Yard</rs>
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as aforesaid, and that two Men<lb></lb>
now present who call themselves Patrick Barn and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1336-2">Samuel<lb></lb>
Cracraft</rs>
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are the same two Men who knocked him down and<lb></lb>
robbed him as aforesaid</p>
<p n="1337">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
July 4th. 1768}</p>
<p n="1338">W Kelynge</p>
<p n="1339">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1339-1">Robert<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Nicholson</rs>
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Mark</p>
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