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<p n="808">The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n808-1">Edward Dickins</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45003_occ96">Prisoner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="809"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n809-1">Charles Gascoigne</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo189">City of London</rs>
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Merchant<lb></lb>
maketh Oath That <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n809-2">Edward Dickins</rs>
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the Prisoner was lately<lb></lb>
employed as a Supernumerary Porter in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo190">General Post<lb></lb>
Office</rs>
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as this Deponent has been informed and verily believes<lb></lb>
and was apprehended and committed for feloniously taking<lb></lb>
a Bill of Exchange drawn on this Deponent and his Partner<lb></lb>
of the Value of Twenty Pounds out of a Letter directed to<lb></lb>
Messrs. Thomas and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n809-3">John Stevenson</rs>
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in London And this<lb></lb>
Deponent further saith that the said Bill was sent from<lb></lb>
Birmingham by Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n809-4">Samuel Garbett</rs>
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a Merchant with whom<lb></lb>
this Deponent constantly corresponds<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
And this Deponent further saith that<lb></lb>
in a Letter which this Deponent lately received from<lb></lb>
the said Samuel Garbett dated from Edinburgh either the third or<lb></lb>
the fifth Day of this Instant October the said Samuel Garbett<lb></lb>
informs this Deponent (and which this Deponent believes to be true) that he had been for some time<lb></lb>
and was then confined by Sickness at Edinburgh so that he<lb></lb>
could no possibly attend the Prisoners Tryal at the then next<lb></lb>
now present Sessions at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo191">Old Bailey</rs>
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but that he would<lb></lb>
attend at the Sessions next after And this Deponent further<lb></lb>
saith, he is informed and doth verily believe that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n809-5">Samuel Garbett</rs>
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is a very material Witness for the Crown in this<lb></lb>
prosecution and that it is not adviseable to preferr a Bill of<lb></lb>
Indictment against the prisoner or to proceed to a Tryal<lb></lb>
without the Benefit of his Testimony</p>
<p n="810">Sworn in Court this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45003_date30">twenty fifth<lb></lb>
Day of October 1758</rs>
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<p n="811"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n811-1">Cha Gascoigne</rs>
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</p>
<p n="812">By the Court</p>
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