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The Poors for our Lord the King
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on the 9th. Day of Novr last past in
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ye 13 yr of ye Reign of our too Ld George the Second
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of Great Britain Etc and in
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the Your of our Lord 1739 Contriving Intending greatly to Injure one William Frank-
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land of London Brewer by falsely Charging him with a Robbery on the Kings High-Way
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in the County aforesd came before
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of our said Lord the King Assigned to Keep the Peace of our sd Ld the King in the
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County aforesd & also to hear & dectermine diver so Felonies trespasses & other Misdemeanour Comitted in the sd County and the said
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then & there Voluntarily corruptly dec
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fully & unlawfully assumed and took upon himself the Name and person of one
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John Spurce of the parish of Aynor on the Hill in the County of
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man before the sd Wm Morice and in the Name and Place of the sd John Spurce and
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as if he the sd Edwd Bygrave had really been the true Person of the sd John Spurce
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then & there took his Corporal Oath upon the holy Gospel of God before the sd
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(the sd Wm Morice then & there having sufft Power & Authority to
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upon his Oath aforesd not having the Trear of God before his Eyes but being mo-
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ved and seduced by the Instigacon of the Devil then and there voluntarily ful
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maliciously Corruptly and decietfully upon his Oath aforesd said Deposed
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to an Examination
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that a Person then in Custody in his Majesty's Goal of
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Newgate in the County of Middx who went by the Name of
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on or abt the 20th Day of Octobr wch was in the near of our Lord 1736 Attack
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him (meaning thereby himself the sd Ed. Bygrave and he the sd Ed Bygrave then & there falsely reprsenting
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and person
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the sd John
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on the High way as he (men-
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ning himself the
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Ed Bygrave and he the sd Ed Bygrave then there falsely Representing & personating him the sd Jno Spurce) was travelling between 9 step & wheatley in Oxford-
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shire that he (meaning there by the above-named Wm Frankland) robbed him
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meaning himself the sd. Ed Bygrave and he the sd Ed Bygrave then & there falsely Representing & personating him the sd
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and forcibly took from him (again meaning
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himself the sd Ed Bygrave He the yd sd Bygrave still then & there falsely representing & personating him ye sd Jno Spruce one Guinea Fifteen Shillings in Silver a Silver Watch
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an orde Originel Examcon on and & his
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Hatt and the
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Rottery was Committed in the Day Time between the Hours
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of four & five
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of the clock in the afternoon on or abt the sd 20th Day Octobr in
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