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ted, by which Means he gain'd his Liberty. But foon
after, Mr. Gordon and he enquiring about a Stage Coach
betimes in the Morning, they were both taken up up-
on Sufpicion of being Highwaymen, and the one met
with Punifhment for his Crimes, but no Evidence ap-
pearing againft Mr. Gordon in Middkfex, he was carry'd
down by a Habeas Corpus to Chelmsford in Effix, where
he was indifted for robbing upon the Highway fonae
Gentlemen, and the Clerk of the Fijhmongers Company 5
feveral of thefe Gentlemen fwore to him, that they
believ'd him to be one of the Men who robb'd them,
yet two or three Coaches full of Evidences going down
from London to Chelmsford, gave fuch Tokens of his be-
ing at Dublin at the 'lime the faid Robbery was com-
mitted, by producing of Letters, and fliewing Seals,
which none there ptefent could contradift, that he
Jury thought themfelves oblig'd to acquit him, becaufe
whatever they might believe of him, yet thefe Eviden-
ces created fuch a Confufion and Perplexities in the hi-
fiir, that they judged it beft to let him pafs. After
this he ftiil profecuted his unlawful and wicked Praftiqe
•of going on the Highway, only, as he told me fmee
that 7ime, (being about three Years ago) he went to
Ireland, and liv'd in and about Dublin for eight Months,
there a certain Friend ofFer'd him a large Sum of Money
to fet up Farming or Grazing in the North of Epgiaitd,
but he liking his old Trade belt, came again to his owh
•Country, and defpifcd fuch an OiFer. As to the rob-
• bing Mr. Peters he did not deny it, only in Aikvlation
he faid, that he was extremely in Liquor, which wa^
all his Excufe. It was allecig'd that he never male-trea-
ted any Body, ^t he and his Companion attacking a
•Gefitleman~who not being willing to be robb'd, gave
his Companion a Blow with his Whip, Gordon in Vin-
dication of his Partner, fliot at the Gentleman, who
holding up his Arm to avoid the Blow from his Head,
was fliot thro' the Arm ; by this Time the other Man
recov'ring from the Confufionlie was in,: held; out a Pi-
ftol'and fvvore that he would Ih^t the Geatlemtn thro'
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