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The Poors for our Lord the King<del>for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50362_geo43">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon their Oaths present that<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50362_n25-1">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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late of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50362_geo44">parish of Kensington</rs>
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in the County of Middx <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50362_occ11">Labourer</rs>
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on the 9th. Day of Novr last past in<lb></lb>
ye 13 yr of ye Reign of our too Ld George the Second <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<obscured></obscured>
of Great Britain Etc and in<lb></lb>
the Your of our Lord 1739 Contriving Intending greatly to Injure one William Frank-<lb></lb>
land of London Brewer by falsely Charging him with a Robbery on the Kings High-Way<lb></lb>
on the sd 9th Day of Novr in the Year aforesd of the sd <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50362_geo45">Parish of Kensington</rs>
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in the County aforesd came before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50362_n25-2">Wm Morice</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50362_occ12">Esqr</rs>
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one of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50362_occ13">Justices</rs>
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of our said Lord the King Assigned to Keep the Peace of our sd Ld the King in the<lb></lb>
County aforesd & also to hear & dectermine diver so Felonies trespasses & other Misdemeanour Comitted in the sd County and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50362_n25-3">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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then & there Voluntarily corruptly dec<obscured></obscured>
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fully & unlawfully assumed and took upon himself the Name and person of one<lb></lb>
John Spurce of the parish of Aynor on the Hill in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50362_geo46">Northampton</rs>
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Tales-<lb></lb>
man before the sd Wm Morice and in the Name and Place of the sd John Spurce and<lb></lb>
as if he the sd Edwd Bygrave had really been the true Person of the sd John Spurce<lb></lb>
then & there took his Corporal Oath upon the holy Gospel of God before the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50362_n25-4">Wm<lb></lb>
Morice</rs>
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(the sd Wm Morice then & there having sufft Power & Authority to<lb></lb>
administer the sd. Oath to the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50362_n25-5">Edward<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Bygrave</rs>
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) and that the sd Ed Bygrave<lb></lb>
upon his Oath aforesd not having the Trear of God before his Eyes but being mo-<lb></lb>
ved and seduced by the Instigacon of the Devil then and there voluntarily ful<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
maliciously Corruptly and decietfully upon his Oath aforesd said Deposed<del>and</del>
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<lb></lb>
and in Writing affirmed<del>to an Examination</del>
that a Person then in Custody in his Majesty's Goal of<lb></lb>
Newgate in the County of Middx who went by the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50362_n25-6">Wm Franklyn</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
by the nick Name of Rusty Dick (meaning thereby the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
above named <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50362_n25-7">William Frankland</rs>
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) did<lb></lb>
on or abt the 20th Day of Octobr wch was in the near of our Lord 1736 Attack<lb></lb>
him (meaning thereby himself the sd Ed. Bygrave and he the sd Ed Bygrave then & there falsely reprsenting<obscured></obscured>
and person<obscured></obscured>
the sd John <obscured></obscured>
on the High way as he (men-<lb></lb>
ning himself the <obscured></obscured>
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-<lb></lb>
shire that he (meaning there by the above-named Wm Frankland) robbed him<lb></lb>
meaning himself the sd. Ed Bygrave and he the sd Ed Bygrave then & there falsely Representing & personating him the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50362_n25-17">Jno Spruce</rs>
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and forcibly took from him (again meaning<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
an orde Originel Examcon on and & his<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Hatt and the<obscured></obscured>
Rottery was Committed in the Day Time between the Hours<lb></lb>
of four & five <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of the clock in the afternoon on or abt the sd 20th Day Octobr in</p>
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