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The Information of
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taken before me
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this 16th. day of June 1773
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Who being upon Oath says that she has boarded and lodged at Mr.
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Robt. Brailsfords
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Petty France
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for a considerable, Time, that on Monday
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last Mr. Vere a Sheriff's Officer with several Assistants came to the said Mr.
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Brailsford's and took Possession of the Premises & Goods by Virtue of a Writ of
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Execution as this Informant believes; that yesterday about six o'Clock there
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being at that time no person belonging to the family in the house but this
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Informant she went up into her own room to dress that one of the Assistants
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belonging to the said Mr. Vere
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John Leonard
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followed her into the room
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and feloniously ravished and casually knew her against her
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Will and Consent, that this Informant cried out and struggled as much as in
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her Power that this Informant does not recollect what passed from that Time
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until she found herself at the Bottom of the Garden about 8 or 9 o' Clock,
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that she was soon afterwards received into the Garden of Mr. Giddiss
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Giddiss's
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Maid last Night that every
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thing had been done to her that was bad, and this Morning she
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told
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now present the whole of the Affair as above
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Sworn before me this
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16th day of June 1773}
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