ABSTRACT
The Jurors for our Lord the King, upon their oath, present that Richard Branson, late of the parish of Camberwell, in the county of Surrey, labourer, on the first day of August, in the thirty-third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, king of Great Britain, &c. not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, with force and arms, at the parish aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, in and upon James Fassett…then and there being, did make an assault, and him the said James Fassett, then and there, did beat, wound, and ill treat, so that his life was greatly despaired of, with an intent that most horrid, detestable, and sodomitical crime (not among Christians named) called Buggery, with the said James Fassett, against the order of Nature, then and there, feloniously, wickedly, and devilishly, to commit and do, to the great displeasure of Almighty God, to the great damage of the said James Fassett, and against the Peace of our said Lord the king, his Crown, and dignity.
