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said Justices of the said Lord the King assigned to keep the peace of the said Lord the King in the said County of
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and also to hear and determine diverse Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanours committed in the County
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of the Justices of he said Lord the King assigned to keep the peace of the said Lord the King in the
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voluntarily falsely and maliciously upon his corporal Oath depose swear and in Writing affirce
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That a person then in Custody in his Majesty's Goal of Newgate in the
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who was then in
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in the said Goal) did on or about the twentieth day of October which was in the year of our Lord One thousand
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seven hundred and thirty six attack him (meaning him the said
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Spurce) on the Highway as he (meaning himself the said
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from him (meaning himself the said
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) one Guinea Fifteen
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shillings in Silver a Silver Watch and Hatt and that the said Robbery was committed in the day time between the
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hours of four and five o'Clock in the afternoon on or about the said twentieth October in the year One thousand seven
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