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<p n="244"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50525_geo115">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50525_n244-1">Ralph <lb></lb>
Hodgson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50525_occ122">Servant</rs>
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to Mr. Townsend <lb></lb>
Woollen <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50525_occ123">draper</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50525_geo116">the Strand</rs>
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taken <lb></lb>
before me this 10th. day of Augt. 1763</p>
<p n="245">Who being upon Oath says that on Saturday the 30th. of July last <lb></lb>
between the hours of 8 & 9 in the Evening as he was coming <lb></lb>
from out of the City to his Masters House, he was accosted<lb></lb>
by a Man now present who called himself Smith<del>an</del>
who <lb></lb>
took this Informant by the hand desired him to take a Walk <lb></lb>
down Temple Lane, says that being a good deal in Liquor<lb></lb>
he accordingly went with said Smith (whose Name<lb></lb>
he has since found to be <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50525_n245-1">James Brown</rs>
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) to the bottom <lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50525_geo117">Temple Lane</rs>
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aforesaid, says that there having <lb></lb>
occasion to make Water, which he was doing it said <lb></lb>
Brown als Smith seized hold of his Prisate Parts<lb></lb>
Told him he wou'd carry him to the Watch House, for that <lb></lb>
he had half a Guinea a Week from Justice Fielding for <lb></lb>
Apprehending such Persons and three pounds for each <lb></lb>
he so Apprehended, but that if Informt. wou'd give<lb></lb>
him all his Money he wou'd let him go, being<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in <lb></lb>
present want of Money; says that said Brown als Smith<lb></lb>
Search'd all his Pockets and finding no Money, took his <lb></lb>
Watch, out of his Pocket and two pair of Buckles one Silver,<lb></lb>
the other Steel sd lated with Silver, and also a pair of Stone Sleeve<lb></lb>
Buttons, all from his Person feloniously and against <lb></lb>
his Wile; says that since that time, said Brown alias Smith<lb></lb>
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has at different times extorted from this Informant several<del>different</del>
<lb></lb>
Sums of Money amounting in the whole to the Sum of Twelve <lb></lb>
Guineas and a half, two Shirts, one Neckcloth, a handkerchief,<lb></lb>
and also a Note of hand for five Guineas (upon which Note <lb></lb>
he was last Night arrested) under pretence that he wou'd Charge <lb></lb>
this Informt. with the Crime of Sodomy and Hang him or <lb></lb>
Transport him if her did not comfi<obscured></obscured>
with his Request</p>
<p n="246">Sworn the days & Year <lb></lb>
first above written <lb></lb>
before me}</p>
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<p n="248"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50525_n248-1">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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