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<p n="109"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx & Westmr ss</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n109-1">Foulk Withers</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50105_geo36">St Margaretts Westmr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ31">Flaa<lb></lb>
dresser</rs>
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<p n="110">This Informant sayeth that he together with <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-1">John Dent</rs>
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were on the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50105_date61">Eighteenth day of this Instant March</rs>
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in aid of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-2">Samuel Bray</rs>
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Cons<obscured></obscured>
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for the said City and Liberty and that whilst the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ32">Constable</rs>
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-ing search they waited at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50105_geo37"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50105_geo38">the Watch house</rs>
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in Covent Garden</rs>
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for his<lb></lb>
return and Whilst they were there <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-3">Philip Cholmondley</rs>
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came to them<lb></lb>
and said the Constable meaning the said Bray and his Assistants were<lb></lb>
assaulted by soldiers with naked swords and was<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
ensue therefore begged of them this Informant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-25">John Dent</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for Good sake to go to the said Constables Assistance which accordingly<lb></lb>
this Informant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-96">John Dent</rs>
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did and when they were come<lb></lb>
up where the said Constable and his Assistants were, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-4">William Arch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
made a violent thrust at this Informant with his Naked Sword<lb></lb>
whereupon this Informant retired back. And this Informant<lb></lb>
heard the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-54">John Dent</rs>
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advise the said Arch Jeremiah Tooley<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-6">John Clawson</rs>
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to be quiet and go about their business for that<lb></lb>
nobody meddled with them and that the Constable was about her<lb></lb>
Majestyes be con<obscured></obscured>
ward to<obscured></obscured>
without the least<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
-tion given to them he saw she said Arch, Tooley, and Clawson with<lb></lb>
their swords drawn make towards the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-24">John Dent</rs>
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and presently<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-85">John Dent</rs>
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came from among them and desired to be<lb></lb>
carryed off for that they meaning the said Arch Tooley and Clawson<lb></lb>
had dangerously wounded him which accordingly this Informant<lb></lb>
together with of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-7">John Taylor</rs>
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with great difficulty did and this<lb></lb>
Informant further sayes that in a little time after as he verily<lb></lb>
believes the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n110-93">John Dent</rs>
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died of the wound he had received as<lb></lb>
aforesaid And This Informant further sayeth that he did<obscured></obscured>
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