For the King
The King on the prosecution of the Court
of Lord Mayor and Andrew
agt.
Elizabeth Nicholls< no role > This name instance is in set 1683.
}
on an Indictmt.
for a Conspiracy
Middx
Preferred and found 16th. Janry
1741
at Hicks Hall
Indictment Setsforth That Deft and One
Edward Bygrave< no role >
now deced falsely conspiring
to injure One
Wm. Frankland< no role >
in his good name and to cause him to be imprisoned for felony on the
9th: of Nov: 1739
at Kensington
in the County of Middx with force and Arms Etc did combine conspiracy
and agree to procure the said Frankland (he being
[..] then a Prisoner in Newgate) to be charged
upon Oath before a Justice of the peace for Middx with a felony comitted by him in Oxfordshire
and to cause him to be detained in Newgate for the same, And for that purpose the said By grave
should Psonate one
John Space< no role >
of
Aynoe on the Hill
in Northamptonshire
Salesman
And to
compleat their said Conspiracy Deft and said By grave on said 9th: Nov: at Kensington
Etc did go
before one
Wm. Morice< no role >
Esqr
then a Justice of the peace
for Middx And said By grave then & there in
the presence & with the knowledge & privity of Deft & in pursuance of their said Conspiracy (the said
By grave Psonating the said Sparce) before the said
Wm. Morice< no role >
did then falsely on his Oath Swear &
in writing affirmt That a person then in Newgate who went by the name of
William Franklyn< no role >
"& by the Nick name of Rusly Dick (meaning the said Frankland then being in Newgate) did on ye
"20th: Oct 1736
attack him (meaning the said By grave who then Psonated ye said Spence) on ye highway
"as he (meaning Etc) was travelling between I slip and Weatley in Oxfordshire That said Frankland
"robbed him (meaning Etc) and forcibly took from him One Guinea, 15: in Silver a Silver watch & hatt
"And that the said robbery was comitted in the day time between 4 & 5 in the afternoon on said 20th
"Oct 1736 And that he (meaning Etc) was very positive that the person who robbed him was ye said
"Frankland As by said Examinacon appears Whereas ye said
Wm Frankland< no role >
who is in in entened
to have been called by the Nick name of Rusty Dick did not at any time attack robb or forcibly lake
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