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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50639_geo108">Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="278">The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50639_n278-1">Elizabeth Ratcliff</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50639_occ53">Spinster</rs>
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On the Prosecution of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50639_n278-2">Hannah<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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for an Assault</p>
<p n="279"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50639_n279-1">James Meredyth</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50639_geo109">Wells Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50639_geo110">Oxford Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50639_geo111">County of Middlesex</rs>
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maketh Oath<lb></lb>
and Saith that he this Deponent did see the<lb></lb>
within named<del>Elizabeth</del>
Hannah Smith duly<lb></lb>
Sign Seal and Execute the within mentioned Release<lb></lb>
unto the within named Elizabeth Ratcliff, and that<lb></lb>
the Name <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50639_n279-3">Hannah Smith</rs>
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thereunto Subscribed is<lb></lb>
of the proper Hand Writing of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50639_n279-4">Hannah Smith</rs>
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And that the Names <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50639_n279-5">John Brotherton</rs>
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and James<lb></lb>
Meredith are of the proper Hand Writing of the <lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50639_n279-7">John Brotherton</rs>
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and of this Deponent<lb></lb>
respectively.</p>
<p n="280">Sworn in Court at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50639_geo112">Hicks's<lb></lb>
Hall</rs>
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this 12 day of April 1774}</p>
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<p n="282">W:</p>
<p n="283">Confession Paid</p>
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