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<p n="96">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-1">Samuel Bray</rs>
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of the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50105_geo28">St Margarets Westmr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ12">Farrier</rs>
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<lb></lb>
This Informant sayeth that<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ13">Constable</rs>
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for the said City and liberty and that<lb></lb>
on Fryday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50105_date55">Eighteenth day of his Instant.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
March</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50105_date55" type="date" value="17090318"></interp>
he in<obscured></obscured>
to<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
precepts directed to him and signed and sealed by the Commrs. for that purpose<lb></lb>
to impressable bodied men for the Land Service made search after such and<lb></lb>
other lewd and disorderly Persons in the night<del>as the same day</del>
and in his hath<lb></lb>
he found about nine o Clock near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50105_geo29"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50105_geo30">the Playhouse</rs>
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in Drury Lane</rs>
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one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-2">Anne Dickins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a reputed <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ14">common whore</rs>
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and a loose Idle disorderly Person plying there who he took<lb></lb>
into his Custody in order to carry her before a Justice of Peace but at<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Assistants were going along with her over <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50105_geo31">Covent Garden</rs>
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to secure the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-417">Anne Dickins</rs>
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they were without the least provocation given by them violently<lb></lb>
assaulted with swords drawn by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-3">William Arch</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-4">Jeremiah Tooley</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-47">John<lb></lb>
Clawson</rs>
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who with dread full oaths and Imprecations demanded the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-218">Anne<lb></lb>
Dickins</rs>
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from him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-87">Samuel Bray</rs>
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, the said three <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ15">Soldiers</rs>
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saying these (meaning this Informant<lb></lb>
and his Assistants) are the Informing Dogs whereupon this Informant told the<lb></lb>
said Arch Tooley and Clawson he was the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ16">Queens Officer</rs>
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and about she<lb></lb>
Queens business and that the woman was his prisoner and shewed them his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50105_occ17">Constables</rs>
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Staff and charged them in the Queens names to keep the Peace<lb></lb>
upon which they the said Arch Tooley and Clawson put up their sword<lb></lb>
and went a little way off and this Informant and his Asistants<obscured></obscured>
at<lb></lb>
about their business but they the said Arch, Tooley and Clawson soon,<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
upon him this Informant and his Assistants again and in the same violent names<lb></lb>
(without the least provocation given as foresaid) assaulted him and them with<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
swords drawn and then <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-5">John Dent</rs>
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whom he had before charged to his aid came into<lb></lb>
his Assistance and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-28">John Dent</rs>
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did till the said Arch Tooley and Clawson<lb></lb>
that they (meaning this Informant and his Assistants) were, serving the Queen and<lb></lb>
that they did not in the least meddle with them and therefore begged them so<lb></lb>
be quiet and go about their business but still persisted in their outrage<lb></lb>
and made severall thrusts and<obscured></obscured>
their Rashed Swords at this Informants<lb></lb>
and his Assistants among whom was the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-45">John Dent</rs>
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and presently after this<lb></lb>
Informant was told that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-88">John Dent</rs>
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was<obscured></obscured>
nded by the said Arch Tooley and<lb></lb>
Clawson of which wound as this Informant verily believes in about half<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
hours time after the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-22">John Dent</rs>
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died And This Informant further sayeth that<lb></lb>
he was wounded in the hand by one of the said Sessions Vizt Arch Tooley or<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and that he did not<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
see any of his Assistants Strike any<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
till after the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n96-50">John Dent</rs>
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was wounded.</p>
<p n="97">Jurat coram me <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50105_date56">decimo nono die Martis 1709</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Geo: Watson</p>
<p n="98"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50105_n98-1">Samuell Bray</rs>
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