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Mr: John Townstrends of Baynards Castte
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between a place called Mother red caps
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Middx Assault. a person who calls
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Edmund Knapp
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put him in
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bodily fear & robbed him of a Coat I
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on a Sunday night he was assaulted
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in the aforesaid place put in bodily
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fear
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of which coat were a
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book a pair of gloves Far Handkerchief
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likewise
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a has
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had his hat
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taken away
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a worse has given
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John Nightingale
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Sworn before
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1746
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Jas. Fraser
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