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Philip Cholmondley
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of the Parish of
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in the said County Ste
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This Informant sayeth that on Fryday the
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he in aid of
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Samuel Bray
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for the said City and Liberty
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who had before charged this Informant for that purpose was carrying one
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Anne Dickins
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a lewd woman of the Town
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Samuel Bray
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to secure her in the Watch-House till she could be had
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before a Justice of Peace, but as he this Informant was going over
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Covent
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in company with the said
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Samuel Bray
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Samuel Bray
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violently assaulted by
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Jeremiah Tooley
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John Clawson
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who with dread full oaths and Imprecations with their swords drawn
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demanded of the said
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Samuel Bray
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the said
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Anne Dickins
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where upon
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Samuel Bray
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acquainted them that he was the
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Queens officer
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and that the woman was his prisoner and shewed them his
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staff and charged them in her Majestyes name to keep the Peace upon
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which the said Arch, Tooley, and Clawson seem'd pacified and put up
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their swords and went a little way off and this informant and the said
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Constable and his Assistants went about their business, but the said Arch
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Tooley and Clawson soon returned again upon them and in the same violent
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manner (without the least provocation given as aforesaid) assaulted the
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said Constable and his Assistants with their drawn swords and this Informt:
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living last before made off with his prisoner to the Watch-House to
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secure her and get further aid where he found
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the
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John Dent
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whom this Informant told that the said
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and his Assistants were assaulted with natred swords by
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and that
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he feared murder might Ensue and therefore begged of them for Gods
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sake to go to the aid of the said Constable and his Assistants upon where
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the said
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John Dent
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and
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Withers imediately went and presently
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after this Informant may told that the said
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John Dent
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was wounded
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by the said Arch Tooley and Clawson or one of them whereof in a very little time
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after
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as this Informant verily believes the said
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John Dent
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died and this
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Informant further sayeth that he did not see the said Constable or his
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Assistants strike any blows during the Affray.
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Jurat coram die
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decimo nono die March 1708
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Geo: Watson
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Philip Cholmondley
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