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TheInformationof Robert Wells< no role > of Molesy in the County
of Surrey Labourer Taken before me John Hawkins< no role >
Esqr one of His Majesty's Justices of the peace use & for
the said County and of the Quorum at Twickenham
in the County aforesaid

Who upon his Oath saith that in or about the Month
of January 1759 he this [..] Informant was Married by Licence
to Ann Brown< no role > Spinster otherwise Ann Mowdey< no role > at the
Parish Church of Petworth in the County of Sussex
and that William Ransom< no role > & William Pullen< no role > [..]
of Chichester in the said County of Sussex & Williams
Pullen< no role > of Petworth aforesaid were present at his said
Marriage and this [..] Informant further saith that
about a Year after his said Marriage he was informed
that the said Ann Had a Husband these being
named Thomas Mowdey< no role > whereupon he this [..] Informant
taxed this said Anns with her having been Married to
the said Thomas Mowdey at the time of her Marriage
to this [..] Informant and that she the said Anns therefore
confessed & Acknowledged the same and that the said,
Thomas Mowdey was then living at Webston a parish
about three miles from Guilford in the County of Surry
and this [..] Informant saith that the said Ann gave him
as a Reason for her leaving the said Thomas Mowdey
that he was one Old Man and used to feat her and other
wised Misused her and this [..] Informant saith that as
soon as her Conveniently could Vizt about Harvest time in
the year 1760 he together with the said Ann took a Journey
so Welston aforesaid this [..] Informant intending to have left
the said Ann with the said Thomas Mowdey & for the more
easy effecting thereof he this [..] Informant intended to be
the Brother of the said Ann and this [..] Informant saith
that as soon as he could find out the said Thomas Mowdey
he still pretending to be the Brother of the said Ann
told Mowdey that he had brought name hence his the [..]
said Mowdey Wife an that it the did not take her again
her this [..] Informant would trouble him the said Mowdey
upon which Mowdey at first denyed that he knew her
but several of the Neighbours and one of the parish
Officers the Master of the brooked Billett Alehouse in
whose House they then were telling him the said
Mowdey that they turn her to be his Wife he the said
Mowdey