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The Information of
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Robert Cubbidge
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of the parish of
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St
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Giles in the Feilds
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in the said County
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Carver
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This Informant sayeth that on Fryday the
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Eighteenth day of this Instant March
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he was out
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of
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Samuel Bray
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a
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Constable
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for the said City and Liberty
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who
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ged him for that purpose and in searching after loose idle Persons
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both
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and Wo
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they found near the
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house in
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Drury Lane
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one
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Dickins
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a Common lewd woman of the Town
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plying there whom the said Constable
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took into his Custody in order to carry her before a Justice of Peace which as he
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was doing the said Constable this Informant with other his Assistants
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in
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Convent Garden
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without the
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given of
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with drawn Swords by
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William Arch
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Jeremiah Tooley
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and
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John Clawson
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and
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with dreadfull on the and Imprecations demanded the said
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Anne Dickins
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, Whereupon
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the said
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Constable
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told them he was the
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Queens Officer
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and about his Majestyes
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be
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and shewed them his Constables Staff and charged them in the Queen
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Name to keep the Peace upon which they put up their Swords and went little
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way off, and the said Constable this Informant and the other Assistant
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went about their business but: imediately they the said Arch Tooley and
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Clawson returned upon them again and without the Arch provocation given
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as aforesaid the said Arch said God dam'n his blood he would murder some
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of them (meaning she said Constable or his Assistants) or words to that Effect
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and then he Tooley and Clawson aforesaid Severall their Swords And this
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Informant further sayeth that he heard
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John Dent
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one of the said
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Assistants
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beg of them the said Arch Tooley and Clawson to be quiet for nobody
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Medled with them or designed to hurt them or words to that effect but
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they the said Arch Tooley and Clawson persisted in their outrage and
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Assaulted with their naked swords the said Constable and his Assistant
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whereupon this Informant closed in with the said Arch and took his
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swords from him but he imediately drew his Bajonett and again said
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Dam'n you
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be the death of you and then this Informant said the
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said Arch Tooley and Clawson make several Thrusts and Strokes with
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their naked Swords and Bajonetts at and upon the Company where the
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said
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John Dent
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was and
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any
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he was
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said
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John Dent
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was wounded by the said Arch Tooley and Clawson or one of them and in a
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little time after as this Informant verily believes
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the said
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John Dent
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died
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thereof And this Informant further sayeth that he saw no Rows S
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by the said Constable or his Assistants And this Informant
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sayeth
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that he was wounded in his land by the said Arch Tooley or Clawson and
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the said Arch pursued this Informant with his Baronett drawn as
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as the watch-house swearing he would murder him this Informant
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Jurat coram me
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decimo octavo die Martis 1708
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Geo: Watson
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Robt. Cubbidge
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