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Wm Mathews
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in the said County
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Weaver
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taken on Oath before us three
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of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace
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Acting in and for the said County this
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30th day of December 1782
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First this Informant Mary Bindley for herself on
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her Oath saith That about three o' Clock in the
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Morning of Sunday the twenty Ninth day of
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Noven
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December Inst. as she this Informant was
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passing along the Kings Highway in
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in the parish of
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Saint Mary White Chapel
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in the said County she was Stopped by the person
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now present who calls himself
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John Cowdry
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John Cowdry
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did then and there
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feloniously
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Assault her put her in Bodily fear
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and feloniously take from her person
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the
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one Shilling in Silver The Money of her this
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Informant Numbered
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lastly
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saith that the
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said Johns Cowdry Threatened to cut her in
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half in case she Spoke a Word but she
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Cried out to the Watch who came up to her
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Assistance and took them both into Custody
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lastly saith that the shilling she was Robbed
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of was a Queen Anns Shilling and had a hole
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through the Middle.
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This Informant
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William Mathews
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for himself on his
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Oath saith that he is one of the Watchmen of the
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That on hearing a
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Cry of Watch he went to the Place where he saw
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Mary Bindley
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and the said
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John Cowdry
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That the said Mary Bindley Informed him that
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she had been Robbed by the said
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John Cowdry
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of a Queen Anns Shilling with a hole through upon
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which he this Informant took them both into Custody
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and to the Watchhouse belonging to the sd Parish
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Taken and Sworn the day and Year above Written
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before us
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John Staples
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J Hawley
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Saml. Hawkins
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Mary
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Bindley
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William
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Mathews
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