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committed in the sd: <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo375">County of Middlesex</rs>
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with a Felony committed by him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-1">Wm. Frankland</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo376">County of Oxford</rs>
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and to Cause the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-2">Wm. Frankland</rs>
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to be detained in the said Goal of Newgate for the Same And that for<lb></lb>
these Purposes he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-3">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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should Personate one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-4">John Spurce</rs>
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of the Parish of Aynoe on the Hill in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo377">Nothampton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15055_occ212">Salesman</rs>
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And the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-5">Elizabeth Nicholls</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-6">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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to compleat & Perfect their sd. wicked<lb></lb>
Combinations, Intentions & Conspiracy the sd: 9th of November in the Year aforesd. at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo378">Kensington</rs>
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aforesd. in the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo379">County of Middlesex</rs>
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did go before one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-7">Wm: Morice</rs>
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then one of the sd. Justices of the sd. Lord the King assigned to keep the<lb></lb>
Peace of the said Lord the King in the sd. County of Middx And Also to hear & determine diverse Felonies, Trespasses & other<lb></lb>
Misdemeanours committed in the County last aforesd. And the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-8">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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then & there in the presence and with the knowledge<lb></lb>
and Privity of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-9">Elizabeth Nicholls</rs>
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and in Pursuance of the said Combination & Conspiracy (the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-10">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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then & there Personating the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-11">John Spurce</rs>
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) before the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-12">Wm. Morice</rs>
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(the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-13">Wm. Morice</rs>
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then and long before<lb></lb>
being one of the Justices of the said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace of the said Lord the King in the County of<lb></lb>
Middx And Also to hear & determine divers Felonies, Trespasses & other misdemeanous committed in the said County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo380">Middlesex</rs>
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and having sufficient Authority to administer an oath to the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-14">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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in that behalf) did then in the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo381">Parish of Kensington</rs>
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Voluntarily falsely & maliciously upon his Corporal oath depose Swear & inwriting affirm<lb></lb>
That a Person then in Custody in his Majesty's Goal of Newgate in the County of Middx who went by the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-51">William<lb></lb>
Franklyn</rs>
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and by the Nick Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-52">Rusty Dick</rs>
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(meaning the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-17">William Frankland</rs>
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who was then in Custody in the sd. Goal)<lb></lb>
did on or about the 20th: day of October which was in the Year of our Lord 1736. Attack him (meaning him the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-18">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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who then Personated the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-19">John Sparce</rs>
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) on the Highway as he (meaning himself the said Edward<lb></lb>
Bygrave then Personating the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-20">John Spurce</rs>
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) was travelling between <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo382">Islip & Weatley</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo383">Oxford Shire</rs>
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that he (meaning<lb></lb>
the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-21">Wm. Frankland</rs>
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) robbed him (meaning himself the sd: <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-22">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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then Personating the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-23">John Spurce</rs>
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) and<lb></lb>
Forcibly took from him (Meaning himself the sd: <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-24">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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then Personating the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-25">John Spurce</rs>
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) one Guinea<lb></lb>
Fifteen Shillings in Silver a Silver Watch & Hatt And that the said Robbery was committed in the Day time between the<lb></lb>
hours of Four & five o'Clock in the Afternoon on or about the sd: 20th: October in the Year 1736: and that he (meaning<lb></lb>
himself the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-26">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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then Personating the sd: <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-27">John Spurce</rs>
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) was very Possitive that the Person who robbed<lb></lb>
him (meaning himself the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-28">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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then personating the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-29">John Spurce</rs>
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as aforesd) was the said William<lb></lb>
Fanklyn abovenamed (meaning thereby the sd: <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-30">Wm Frankland</rs>
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) as by the sd. Examination may more at large appear<lb></lb>
Whereas in Truth & in fact the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-31">Wm: Frankland</rs>
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or the sd: <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-32">Wm: Franklyn</rs>
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who is mentioned to have been called by<lb></lb>
the Nick Name of Rusty Dick did not at any time attack robber or forcibly take away from any Person whatsoever<lb></lb>
on the Highway in the said County of Oxford any money or goods whatsoever which sd: Combination & Conspiracy of<lb></lb>
the sd: <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-34">Elizabeth Nicholls</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n394-35">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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were to the great Peril of the life & destruction of the said William<lb></lb>
Frankland To the manifest Persversion of the Laws of this Kingdom To the Evil Example of all others in the<lb></lb>
like Case offending and against the Peace of the said Lord the King his Crown & Dignity etc Whereupon the<lb></lb>
Sheriff of the sd: County of Middx was commanded that he should not omit by reason of any Liberty in his Bailwick</p>
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