Middlesex
to wit.}

I amThe Information of James Lintott< no role > and
Henry Bury< no role > Servants to Sir Robert Goodere< no role > Knt .
Taken before Us three of his Majestys Justices of
the Peace for the said County

who being Upon Oath Say And First this Informant James Lintott< no role >
for himself Saith that On Wednesday last the Person now present
who Calls himself John Pullen< no role > together with one John Clarke< no role >
not yet takeinor on present Came to this Informants Masters house and told
this Informant that he had made an Unnatural Attempt upon
his Brother in Lord Shelbournes Passage Sometime ago And that
he was Come to soften this Matter with him and accordingly
desired this Informant to go with him to a Public house in the
Neighbourhood And Saith that so soon as he got to the door of
the Public House the Said John Puller< no role > in the Presence of the
other person abovenamed Clarke, told this Informant that I was
not his Brother that he had made an Unnatural Attempt
on but was himself, and that if this Informant did not give
him a Guinea, he would Acquaint his Master and would expose
him and have him taken up and sent to prison to be punished
by Law and Informed him that three were two in Prison
for the same thing this Informant then sayd it was very
hard for him to give them Money for a Crime of which key
was not Guilty they sayd they would not take less than
a Ginnea. upon which this Informant gave the send
Pullen & Clarke One half Guinea in Gold and Seven
Shillings and Six pence in Silver which ever all the
money this Informant thanked in his Pocked there
they lest him the next morning the said John Clarke< no role >
came again this Informant standing at the door he his
MasterHouse Clarke came to him & say'd that
his had done every thing that lay in his honer to make
A up between this Informant & fuller and sayd it world
be very Ungeneral of he would not give him something
for his Trouble this Informant sayd he had us many
& the said Clarke told him he must go & borrow some
if he could not give him five Shillings he would take
three Shillings and an old Shirt upon which this
Informant went & brought to the said Clarke four
Shillings and Eleven pence which was all the money
he had in the woud. but when this Informant last the