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<p n="417">hundred and thirty six and that he (meaning himself the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-1">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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then personating the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-2">John Spurce</rs>
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was very positive that the Person who robbed him (meaning himself the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-3">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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then personating the said<lb></lb>
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as aforesaid) was the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-5">William Franlyn</rs>
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abovenamed (meaning thereby the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-6">William Frankland</rs>
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as by the said<del> <obscured></obscured>
if this be property an Exaiacon or an Informacon</del>
Not Examination may more at large appear Whereas in truth and in fact the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-7">William Frankland</rs>
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or<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-8">William Franklyn</rs>
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who is mentioned to have been called by he Nick Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-9">Rusty Dick</rs>
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did not at any time<lb></lb>
attack robb or forcibly take away from any Person whatsoever on the Highway in the said County of Oxford any Money<lb></lb>
or Goods whatsoever Which said Combination and Conspiracy of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-10">Elizabeth Nicholls</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-11">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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were<lb></lb>
to the great peril of the Life and destruction of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-12">William Frankland</rs>
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To the manifest Perversion of<del>Justice and of</del>
the<lb></lb>
Laws of this Kingdom To the evil Example of all others in the like case offending and against the Peace of the<del>our</del>
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said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity etc Whereupon the Sherif of the said County of Middx was<lb></lb>
commanded that he did should not omit by reason of any Liberty in his Bailiwick but that he should cause the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-13">Elizabeth Nicholls</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-14">Edward Bygrave</rs>
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to come to answer to the Premisses And afterward to wit at the same<lb></lb>
Session of Oyer and Terminer holden at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo478">Hicks Hall</rs>
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aforesaid is and for the said County of Middx on the said<lb></lb>
Monday the eleventh day of January in the said fifteenth year of the reign of our said now Lord the King<lb></lb>
before the Justices of our said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Lord the King abovenamed and others their Fellows aforesaid came the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-15">Elizabeth Nicholls</rs>
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in her proper Person and having heard. the said Indictment read the said Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Nichols said that she was not guilty thereof and thereupon she put herself upon the County And <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n417-98">Peter<lb></lb>
Walter</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15055_occ248">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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of he County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo479">Middx</rs>
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aforesaid who prosecuted for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King in that behalf did the like etc Whereupon such further Proceedings were had upon the Indictment<lb></lb>
aforesaid that afterward to wit at the Session of Oyer and Terminer of our said Lord the King holden for the</p>
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