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affidavit & set it out
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of Newgate in the County of Middx who went by the Name of
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Nick name of Rusty Dick (meaning thereby the above named
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Day of Nov: in ye.
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he the sd: Edwd: Bygrave then &
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& he the sd: Edwd Bygrave then & there
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falsely representing & Personating him the sd: John Spurce) was travelling
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between Istop & Wheatley in Oxfordshire that he (meaning thereby the
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Above named Wm Frankland) robbed him (meaning himself the sd. Edwd: Bygrave
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the sd: John Spurce) and forcibly took from him (again meaning himself the sd
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Edwd: Bygrave he the sd: Edwd Bygrave Still then & there falsely representing & personating
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the sd: John Spurce) One Guinea fifteen Shillings in Sliver a Silver watch & hatt
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that the sd Robbery was committed in the day time between the hours of 4 & 5 of the
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Clock in the Afternoon on or about the sd: 26th: day of Octr: in the year 1736
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then & there falsely representing & Personating him the sd: John Spurce) was
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very Possitive that the Person who robbed him (meaning himself the sd: Edwd: Bygrave he
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the sd: Edwd: Bygrave still then & there falsely representing & Personating him the sd.
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John Spurce) as aforesd: was the sd:
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