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<p n="420"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo265">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n420-1">John Crockett</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n420-2">James<lb></lb>
Savage</rs>
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, taken before me this 5th: day of March <lb></lb>
1781.</p>
<p n="421">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n421-1">John Crockett</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
says that last Evening between 7 and 8 o'Clock as he was walking<lb></lb>
in the road near the Belvedire House by <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo266">Islington</rs>
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, four men met<lb></lb>
him, one passed him, and the other three took hold of this Informants<lb></lb>
head thrusted it downwards, whereby he fell down, when the<lb></lb>
man who first passed him whom he is very sure is a Person<lb></lb>
now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n421-2">Samuel Horsey</rs>
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, put his<lb></lb>
hands into this Informants month and attempted to throttle<lb></lb>
him but on the said Mr Savage coming up the other three<lb></lb>
ran away as did the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n421-3">Samuel Horsey</rs>
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, taking this<lb></lb>
Informants Hat now produced (which dropped when he fell)<lb></lb>
with him. That when he fell, the others attempted to rob<lb></lb>
him of his Watch & Money, but could not get at him Pockets.<lb></lb>
And further says he is very sure that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n421-4">Samuel<lb></lb>
Horsey</rs>
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is the identical Person, that passed him, attempted<lb></lb>
to throttle him, and that robbed him of his Hat as aforesaid<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n421-5">James Savage</rs>
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for himself says that on<lb></lb>
his coming up to the said Mr. Crockett last Evening after<lb></lb>
his ill-usage, he observed his Month very bloody and said<lb></lb>
"he had been robbed of his Hat" that Mr. Crockett pointed<lb></lb>
to a Man who then stood at a little distance in a</p>
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