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<p n="351"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">filed 10th. Decemr.</note>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50647_geo140">Middlesex</rs>
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Amongst the Pleas of the King at the GeneralSession of<obscured></obscured>
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Fifteenth year of the Reign of King George the Third:</p>
<p n="352"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-1">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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als<lb></lb>
The King}</note>
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And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-2">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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who is and Stands Indicted by the name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-3">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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late of the P<obscured></obscured>
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Demands Judgment of the said Indictment and of all and every part thereof whereby he stands Charged of Assault<lb></lb>
Course of Law been Acquitted and Discharged whether he ought to Answer thereunto and by protestation for Plea Alledging<lb></lb>
That at the General Session of the peace of our Lord the King holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50647_geo141">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at Hicks Hall in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50647_geo142">Saint John Street</rs>
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in<obscured></obscured>
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of Great Britain of Before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-4">John Hawkins</rs>
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Knight, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-5">Benjamin Cowley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-6">John Walford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-7">John Spencer Colepeper</rs>
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Esquires an<obscured></obscured>
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divers Felonies Trespasses and other It is demeanors Committed in the same County by the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-8">John Perry</rs>
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Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Ellard, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-9">Richard Worsley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-10">John Foxall</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-11">Thomas Clayton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-12">John Roberts</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-46">Henry Rigg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-13">William Blasson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-67">Charles Chester</rs>
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, Thomas<lb></lb>
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then and there duly Sworn and Char'ged to Enquire for our said Lord the King for the Body of the said<lb></lb>
their Oath present that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-14">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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late of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50647_geo144">Saint. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50647_geo145">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Ironmonger<lb></lb>
with force and arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-47">Margaret Leeth</rs>
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Spinster in the peace of God<lb></lb>
Ill Great so that her lifewas greatly despaired of and other wrongs to the said Margaret then and there did To the great Damage of the said Marg<obscured></obscured>
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General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50647_geo146">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at Hicks Hall in Saint John<obscured></obscured>
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Fourteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain Etc Before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-15">John Hawkins</rs>
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Kn<obscured></obscured>
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to keep the peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanors Commit<obscured></obscured>
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said Lord the King and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-16">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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according to due Course of Law and that afterwards (to wit) at the<obscured></obscured>
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Street in the said County on Monday the Fourteenth day of February in the said Fourteenth Year of the Reign of our said Lord the King<obscured></obscured>
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of our said Lord the King Assigned to keep the peace in the County aforesaid and also the hear and determine divers Fu<obscured></obscured>
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take his Trial upon the said Indictment and upon and by the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-17">Richard Harris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-227">Mathew Graham</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-18">William Smith</rs>
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Doggett, twelve good and lawfull Meen of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50647_geo147">County of Middlesex</rs>
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then and there legally Impanneled and Chosen<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-19">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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was then and there by the said Jury last mentioned upon their Oath as last aforesaid found Not Guilty of<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-20">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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should be Discharged of the Premisses in the said Indictment above specifyed anage without<lb></lb>
afterwards (to wit) at the same last mentioned General Session of the peace of our Lord the King holden yor the Co<obscured></obscured>
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day of February in the said Fourteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain<lb></lb>
Knight, Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-21">Charles Whitworth</rs>
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Knight, and others their fellows Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned to<obscured></obscured>
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Committed in the said County upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-82">John Cay</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-41">Gabriel Cotton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-22">John Warren</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-23">George Bewley</rs>
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, William Cl<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-24">Samuel Newman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-25">John Dell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-26">Thomas Bennett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-27">Francis Hornsby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-28">John Bailey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-30">Joseph Harnsby</rs>
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then and there duly Sworn and Charged to Enquire<obscured></obscured>
said Lord the King for the Body of the said<obscured></obscured>
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King upon their Oath present That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-31">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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late of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50647_geo149">Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
Third King of Great Britain Etc with force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon<lb></lb>
her the said Margaret then and there did Beat Wound and ill treat, so that of her life was greatly despaired of and<lb></lb>
peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50647_n352-32">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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in fact saith and aver<obscured></obscured>
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second Indictment in this his Plea setforth and that the Trespass Assault and Battery mentioned and Contain<obscured></obscured>
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Assault and Battery than is mentioned and Contained in the said second Indictment above Setforth and the<lb></lb>
Court without further Day.</p>
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