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The Several Informations Etc of Mary Ann
Goodman
< no role > , Company Keeper with Thomas Johnson< no role >
of Mount pleasant Old Gravel Lane Saint George
Cordwainer who now his dangerously ill in Consequence
of Certain Stabbs and Wounds given him by One
John Clarke< no role > (now here present in Custody) on
Wednesday the fifth day of November Instant
so that his life is greatly despaired ofWilliams
Dympley
< no role > and Benjamin Sayer< no role > both of Old Grand
Lane aforesaid Victuallers and John Marshall< no role > of
Mount Pleasant aforesaid Pemke maker Taken
This Sixth day of November 1783 before me.
Peter Green< no role > Esqr. one of his Majestys Justices of the
Peace in and for the said County

Who being upon their Oaths severally and respectively
say and last the said Mary Ann< no role > Goodmanfer herself
Saith That she was in company with the above named
Thomas Johnson< no role > and John Clark< no role > at the house of the said
William Dympsey< no role > about five O'Clock in the Afternoon of
yesterday. That she was no more of them until about nine
O'Clock when she saw [..] Johnson come out of the Hoop and
Bunch of Grapers at which time he had received the Wound
That Johnson then told Informant that Clark had done
for time and her too. That she then asked Johnson what
Clark had done who told her he had Stabbed him. That
she then went with Clark to his Room in order to get a
Candle which was then standing on the Stable & was lighted
and an she was going down Stairs Clarke who was then in the
Room and who had a knife in his hand which is now produced
stuck the same into the Floor with great force and Violence
and with heard Oaths and Imprecations Damned and
Buggored his Eyes and Sayed if Nan was here (meaning
as this Informant believes his Company Keeper) he would Serve
her in the same manner he had done Johnson That Clarke
went with her afterwards to two Doctors one of whom is Mr.
Horsford in Ratcliff Highway who directed Informant to go
to the Work house in order to get the Workhouse Chair to have
him Conveyed to the Infirmary. That she accordingly went there
but was refused the Chair as not having a Note from the Doctor
and




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