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<p n="1789"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo754">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1789-1">Ann Boss</rs>
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taken before me <lb></lb>
this 16th. day of June 1773</p>
<p n="1790">Who being upon Oath says that she has boarded and lodged at Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1790-1">Robt. Brailsfords</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo755">Petty France</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo756">Westminster</rs>
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for a considerable, Time, that on Monday<lb></lb>
last Mr. Vere a Sheriff's Officer with several Assistants came to the said Mr.<lb></lb>
Brailsford's and took Possession of the Premises & Goods by Virtue of a Writ of<lb></lb>
Execution as this Informant believes; that yesterday about six o'Clock there<lb></lb>
being at that time no person belonging to the family in the house but this<lb></lb>
Informant she went up into her own room to dress that one of the Assistants<lb></lb>
belonging to the said Mr. Vere <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1790-3">John Leonard</rs>
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followed her into the room<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
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and feloniously ravished and casually knew her against her<lb></lb>
Will and Consent, that this Informant cried out and struggled as much as in<lb></lb>
her Power that this Informant does not recollect what passed from that Time<lb></lb>
until she found herself at the Bottom of the Garden about 8 or 9 o' Clock,<lb></lb>
that she was soon afterwards received into the Garden of Mr. Giddiss<lb></lb>
the next door, that she told Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1790-5">Giddiss's</rs>
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Maid last Night that every<lb></lb>
thing had been done to her that was bad, and this Morning she<lb></lb>
told <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1790-6">Mary Sandys</rs>
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now present the whole of the Affair as above<lb></lb>
related</p>
<p n="1791">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
16th day of June 1773}</p>
<p n="1792"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1792-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="1793"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1793-1">Ann Boss</rs>
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