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of the
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Merchant
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the Prisoner was lately
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employed as a Supernumerary Porter in the
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as this Deponent has been informed and verily believes
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and was apprehended and committed for feloniously taking
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a Bill of Exchange drawn on this Deponent and his Partner
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of the Value of Twenty Pounds out of a Letter directed to
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Messrs. Thomas and
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in London And this
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Deponent further saith that the said Bill was sent from
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Birmingham by Mr
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a Merchant with whom
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this Deponent constantly corresponds
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And this Deponent further saith that
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in a Letter which this Deponent lately received from
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the said Samuel Garbett dated from Edinburgh either the third or
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the fifth Day of this Instant October the said Samuel Garbett
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informs this Deponent (and which this Deponent believes to be true) that he had been for some time
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and was then confined by Sickness at Edinburgh so that he
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could no possibly attend the Prisoners Tryal at the then next
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now present Sessions at the
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but that he would
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attend at the Sessions next after And this Deponent further
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saith, he is informed and doth verily believe that the said
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is a very material Witness for the Crown in this
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prosecution and that it is not adviseable to preferr a Bill of
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Indictment against the prisoner or to proceed to a Tryal
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without the Benefit of his Testimony
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Sworn in Court this
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twenty fifth
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Day of October 1758
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