Middlesex

The King
agt.
Arthur Bedford< no role > and
John Bonham< no role > the
Younger Esquires }
For Assaulting Elizabeth
Thornton< no role >

John Groves< no role > of Crown Court Covent Garden in
the County of Middlesex Gentleman Maketh Oath
and saith That he was Present and did See Elizabeth
Thornton< no role > the above named Prosecutrix Sign Seal and
deliver the within Release and that the Name I
Groves thereto subscribed as a Witness is of the Proper
Hand Writing of this Deponent.

Sworn in Open Court
the 12th. day of January 1798}

Hall

J Groves

Confession Pd