1745 Col - AMERICAN - Doc DAVID GOODSPEED STRIKES WILLIAM WITH GUN GRIEVOUSLY
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This Nice of 1745 is on Hand laid Paper & Has A Papermakers Watermark. Bristol: At a Court of General Sessions of The Peace Holden at Bristol on The 2nd Day of September in The 18th Year of His Majestys Reign George The 2nd by The Grace of God of Great Britain, France & Ireland King Defender of The Faith AD 1744. We The Jurors of our Lord The King for The Body of The County of Bristol Upon Oaths Present David Goodspeed of Raynham at Taunton Labourer on or About The 20th d...ay of July 1744 An Assault On The Body of William Macomber of Taunton Yeoman Did Make The sd William In The Kings Peace There Being AND THE SAID WILLIAM WITH A GUN HE HAD IN HIS HAND DID THEN & THERE WITH FORCE & ARMS STRIKE THE SD WILLIAM ON THE HEAD WHERBY THE SD WILLIAMS WAS GRIEVOUSLY WOUNDED, BRUISED & EVILY INTREATED CONTRARY TO YE LAW IN THAT BEHALF MADE & PROVIDED and To The Peace of Our Sovereign Lord The King His Crown & Dignity SAM Howland ATT For King. Bill a Vera Alis Cobb Foreman Witnesses Eligah Lucian, Herekiah Smith & Simeon Tisdale. On Verso it States And David Goodspeed Comes & Prays The Within Indictment May Be Quashed for That he Had Not Had His Proper Addition Missing Given Him In His Indictment He Being Therein Called a Labourer Whereas He served His Time With A Bricklayer and Has Followed Ye Business of Bricklaying and Doth So Until This Time & HIS TRUE & PROVEN ADDITION OF THAT IS BRICKLAYER & NOT OF LABOURER FOR THAT HE IS NOT CALLED A BRICKLAYER SD INDICTMENT MAY BE QUASHED 2nd THIS INDICTMENT IS BAD FOR THE MENTIONING PRICE OF THE GUN WITHIN MENTIONED IS OMITTED 3rd This Indictment is Founded on A SUPPORTED SPECIAL LAW But There is No Such Law as is Supposed in Such Case. 6 3/4 X 7 1/2" $1.50 for 1st Class Mail Satisfaction Always Guaranteed,
