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hundred and thirty six and that he (meaning himself the said
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was very positive that the Person who robbed him (meaning himself the said
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John Spurce
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abovenamed (meaning thereby the said
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William Frankland
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as by the said
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if this be property an Exaiacon or an Informacon
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Not Examination may more at large appear Whereas in truth and in fact the said
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who is mentioned to have been called by he Nick Name of
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Rusty Dick
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did not at any time
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attack robb or forcibly take away from any Person whatsoever on the Highway in the said County of Oxford any Money
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or Goods whatsoever Which said Combination and Conspiracy of the said
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Elizabeth Nicholls
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were
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to the great peril of the Life and destruction of the said
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William Frankland
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To the manifest Perversion of
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Justice and of
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the
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Laws of this Kingdom To the evil Example of all others in the like case offending and against the Peace of the
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our
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said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity etc Whereupon the Sherif of the said County of Middx was
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commanded that he did should not omit by reason of any Liberty in his Bailiwick but that he should cause the said
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to come to answer to the Premisses And afterward to wit at the same
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Session of Oyer and Terminer holden at
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aforesaid is and for the said County of Middx on the said
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Monday the eleventh day of January in the said fifteenth year of the reign of our said now Lord the King
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before the Justices of our said
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Lord the King abovenamed and others their Fellows aforesaid came the
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said
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in her proper Person and having heard. the said Indictment read the said Elizabeth
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Nichols said that she was not guilty thereof and thereupon she put herself upon the County And
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of he County of
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aforesaid who prosecuted for our said Lord the
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King in that behalf did the like etc Whereupon such further Proceedings were had upon the Indictment
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aforesaid that afterward to wit at the Session of Oyer and Terminer of our said Lord the King holden for the
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