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<p n="2389"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo943">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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<p n="2390">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2390-1">William Pretty</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45022_date208">1st day of June 1774</rs>
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<p n="2391">Who being upon Oath says that about a fortnight or three Weeks<lb></lb>
ago he was returning from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo944">Kensington Gardens</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo945">Oxford Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
he sat down on a Bank in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo946">Hyde Park</rs>
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to rest himself, that a person<lb></lb>
now, present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2391-1">John Clark</rs>
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came to him and behaved<lb></lb>
in a very, indecent Manner, that when this Informant was about to<lb></lb>
go away the said John Clark demanded Money of him threatening<lb></lb>
that if he did not give him Money he would charge him with<lb></lb>
attempting Sedomitical Practices that this Informant refused to<lb></lb>
give him Money that the Said John Clark then said he was a<lb></lb>
Servant out of place and in Distress & begged this Informant<lb></lb>
would give him same thing upon which this Informant gave<lb></lb>
him eighteen pence, that this Informant then went on towards<lb></lb>
Gresevnor Gate and the said John Clark and another person now<lb></lb>
present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2391-5">John Pullen</rs>
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came up to him and<lb></lb>
demanded half a Guinea of him threatening if he refused it<lb></lb>
that they would charge him with attempting Sodomy, that this<lb></lb>
Informant being terrified with the thoughts of such Scandal<lb></lb>
gave them half a Guinea, that in Tuesday the 24th.<del>Inst</del>
of<lb></lb>
May last this Informant being in his own Room the said John<lb></lb>
Clark and John Pullen together with a third person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2391-8">William Rooke</rs>
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came to him and said they<lb></lb>
had got a Warrant from a Justice of Peace against this<lb></lb>
Informant for attempting Sodomy and that if this Informant<lb></lb>
would not give them twenty Guineas they would carry him before<lb></lb>
a Justice that they Informant refusing to give them twenty Guineas</p>
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