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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50371_n1-1">William Bray</rs>
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now a prisoner in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50371_geo1">Pothill fields Bridewell</rs>
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Servant to<lb></lb>
Mr: John Townstrends of Baynards Castte<lb></lb>
in Paul wharf in hondon Muson<lb></lb>
First of all <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50371_n1-3">William Bray</rs>
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maketh Oath<lb></lb>
that on or About the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50371_date2">fourth day of May</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that on or about the fourth day of May<lb></lb>
last he this Informt: together wth <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50371_n1-4">John<lb></lb>
Stevens</rs>
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did near the<lb></lb>
Kings high way in a action field<lb></lb>
between a place called Mother red caps<lb></lb>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
Middx Assault. a person who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50371_n1-6">Edmund Knapp</rs>
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put him in<lb></lb>
bodily fear & robbed him of a Coat I<lb></lb>
what</p>
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maketh Oath<lb></lb>
that about the beginning of May last<lb></lb>
on a Sunday night he was assaulted<lb></lb>
in the aforesaid place put in bodily<lb></lb>
fear<obscured></obscured>
robb'd of a Coat & in the pockets<lb></lb>
of which coat were a<del>pocket</del>
pocket<lb></lb>
book a pair of gloves Far Handkerchief<lb></lb>
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likewise<del>a has</del>
had his hat<lb></lb>
taken away<obscured></obscured>
a worse has given<lb></lb>
him</p>
<p n="3">Witness<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50371_n3-1">John Nightingale</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Sworn before<lb></lb>
me the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50371_date3">24th<lb></lb>
day of June</rs>
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1746<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50371_n3-2">Jas. Fraser</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50371_n4-2">Edmund Knapp</rs>
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