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Arthur Murphy< no role >

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Roger Prosser< no role > Customhouse Officer in the port of London , Maketh
Oath that in January last He with John Nelson< no role > and John
Brock< no role > Excise Officers, Were assaulted and Obstructed in their
Duty on Board the Ship pamassres then lying at Deptford
Within the port aforesaid, by One Arthur Murphy< no role > and Others
That by Order of the Boards of Custom and Excise He together with
Nelson and Brock made an Information before Henry Willoughly< no role >
Esquire, One of his Majesties Justices of the peace for this County
who bound over this Informant by Recognizance to prosecute and
this Deponent Maketh Oath. That a Bill of Indictment upon
the late Act of the Nineteenth of George the Second, Chapter the
Thirty fourth for Shooting at An Officer on Board a Ship was
Accordingly preferr'd Against Murphy, Upon the Evidence of
Nelson and Brock; they being the Officers agt. whom the
Listol was discharged and not this Depont: But the Grand Jury
did find the Said bill not to be a true bill Whereupon Murphy
was discharged beingordered upon Dutysixty inter on in was petition
by leave of ye.theborn [..] oners of the Customs when
the bill was prefferred

Roger Prosser< no role >
D

Sworn in Court
the 16th. Day of July 1747 }

Walter