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<p n="99"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx<lb></lb>
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<p n="100">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n100-1">Philip Cholmondley</rs>
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of the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50105_geo32">St. Martin in the Feilds</rs>
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in the said County Ste<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="101">This Informant sayeth that on Fryday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50105_date57">Eighteenth day of this Instant<lb></lb>
March</rs>
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he in aid of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-1">Samuel Bray</rs>
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as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ18">Constable</rs>
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for the said City and Liberty<lb></lb>
who had before charged this Informant for that purpose was carrying one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-2">Anne Dickins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ19">a lewd woman of the Town</rs>
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and then in the Custody of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-24">Samuel Bray</rs>
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to secure her in the Watch-House till she could be had<lb></lb>
before a Justice of Peace, but as he this Informant was going over <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50105_geo33">Covent<lb></lb>
Garden</rs>
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in company with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-274">Samuel Bray</rs>
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he, the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-14">Samuel Bray</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and other his Assistants were without the least provocation given by them<lb></lb>
violently assaulted by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-3">William Arch</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-4">Jeremiah Tooley</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-5">John Clawson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who with dread full oaths and Imprecations with their swords drawn<lb></lb>
demanded of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-246">Samuel Bray</rs>
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the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-75">Anne Dickins</rs>
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where upon<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-36">Samuel Bray</rs>
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acquainted them that he was the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ20">Queens officer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and that the woman was his prisoner and shewed them his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ21">Constable</rs>
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<lb></lb>
staff and charged them in her Majestyes name to keep the Peace upon<lb></lb>
which the said Arch, Tooley, and Clawson seem'd pacified and put up<lb></lb>
their swords and went a little way off and this informant and the said<lb></lb>
Constable and his Assistants went about their business, but the said Arch<lb></lb>
Tooley and Clawson soon returned again upon them and in the same violent<lb></lb>
manner (without the least provocation given as aforesaid) assaulted the<lb></lb>
said Constable and his Assistants with their drawn swords and this Informt:<lb></lb>
living last before made off with his prisoner to the Watch-House to<lb></lb>
secure her and get further aid where he found<del>the</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-6">John Dent</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-26">Foulk withers</rs>
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whom this Informant told that the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ22">Constable</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and his Assistants were assaulted with natred swords by <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ23">Soldiers</rs>
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and that<lb></lb>
he feared murder might Ensue and therefore begged of them for Gods<lb></lb>
sake to go to the aid of the said Constable and his Assistants upon where<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-47">John Dent</rs>
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and<obscured></obscured>
Withers imediately went and presently<lb></lb>
after this Informant may told that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-59">John Dent</rs>
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was wounded<lb></lb>
by the said Arch Tooley and Clawson or one of them whereof in a very little time<lb></lb>
after<obscured></obscured>
as this Informant verily believes the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n101-31">John Dent</rs>
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died and this<lb></lb>
Informant further sayeth that he did not see the said Constable or his<lb></lb>
Assistants strike any blows during the Affray.</p>
<p n="102">Jurat coram die <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50105_date58">decimo nono die March 1708</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n102-23">Geo: Watson</rs>
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<p n="103"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n103-1">Philip Cholmondley</rs>
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