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<p n="159"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15089_geo81">Middlesex</rs>
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Commitments.</p>
<p n="160"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Dead</note>
1 <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n160-1">RIchard Taylor</rs>
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, committed by J. Girdler, Esq; on oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n160-91">Charlotte<lb></lb>
Weston</rs>
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, for feloniously assaulting her on the king's highway near<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15089_geo82">Foundling Hospital</rs>
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, putting her in fear of her life, and de-<lb></lb>
manding her money from her person, or he would beat out her brains<lb></lb>
with a great stick he held in his hand if she did not deliver to him all<lb></lb>
the money she had about her. Dated Dec. 9, 1777.</p>
<p n="161">2 <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n161-1">James Williams</rs>
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, convicted last session of felony (together with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n161-21">William<lb></lb>
Yardley</rs>
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) in stealing goods the property of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n161-2">David Owen</rs>
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, made his<lb></lb>
escape; and being retaken the 15th of December, 1777, remains for<lb></lb>
judgment, Etc.</p>
<p n="162">3 <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n162-1">Ann Thompson</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n162-2">Mary Downes</rs>
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,}<lb></lb>
committed by J. Sherwood, Esq; on oath of William<lb></lb>
Mudey, for privately stealing from his person, in the<lb></lb>
dwelling-house of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n162-3">Mary Downes</rs>
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, £2.12s.6d. his property.<lb></lb>
Dated Dec. 18, 1777.</p>
<p n="163">4 <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n163-1">Thomas Sherwood</rs>
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, committed by <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15089_occ54">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n163-2">John Fielding</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15089_n163-2" type="given" value="John"></interp>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15089_occ55">Knt</rs>
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. on oath of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n163-3">John Stonehouse</rs>
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, on suspicion of having feloniously uttered and pub-<lb></lb>
lished as true, knowing it to be falsely made, forged and counterfeited,<lb></lb>
a certain deed purporting to be the deed and letter of attorney of the<lb></lb>
Rev. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n163-4">John Myonett</rs>
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, D.D. and the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15089_occ56">Rev</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n163-5">James French</rs>
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, to constitute<lb></lb>
and appoint the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n163-6">Thomas Sherwood</rs>
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their true and lawful attorney<lb></lb>
to transfer £700 interest or share in the capital stock of Three per Cent.<lb></lb>
Annuities, against the statute, Etc. for farther examination. Dated<lb></lb>
Dec. 25, 1777.</p>
<p n="164">Detained on oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n164-1">John Stonehouse</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n164-2">John French</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n164-3">Richard Payne</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n164-4">James French</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n164-5">Samuel Nisbett</rs>
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, for feloniously forging and coun<lb></lb>
terfeiting, and procuring to be forged and counterfeited, and knowingly<lb></lb>
and wilfully acting and assisting in the forging and counterfeiting in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15089_geo83">city of London</rs>
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, a certain letter of attorney to transfer, assign, sell,<lb></lb>
and convey a certain share of and in a certain capital stock established<lb></lb>
by act of parliament, purporting to be the letter of attorney of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15089_occ57">Revd</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n164-6">John Myonnett</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15089_n164-6" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, D.D. and the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15089_occ58">Revd</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n164-7">James French</rs>
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, making,<lb></lb>
constituting, and appointing the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n164-8">Thomas Sherwood</rs>
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their true and<lb></lb>
lawful attorney for them, in their names and on their behalf to sell,<lb></lb>
assign, and transfer all or any part of seven hundred pounds, being all<lb></lb>
their joint interest or share in the capital or joint stock of Three per Cent.<lb></lb>
Annuities, erected by an act of parliament of the 25th year of the reign<lb></lb>
of His Majesty King George the Second, intitled, "An act for con-<lb></lb>
verting the several annuities therein mentioned into several joint stocks<lb></lb>
of annuities transferable at the Bank of England, to be charged on the<lb></lb>
Sinking Fund," and by several subsequent acts; and feloniously, know-<lb></lb>
ingly, and fraudulently demanding, and endeavouring to have the said<lb></lb>
share in stock transferred, assigned, sold, and conveyed, contrary to the<lb></lb>
statutes, Etc. Dated <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15089_date12">Dec. 26, 1777</rs>
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.</p>
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