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agst. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1751-2">Frances Bradley</rs>
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Indicted for Felony on the Prosecution of<lb></lb>
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Indicted<lb></lb>
for Felony on the same Prosecution</p>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo893">Tower Street London</rs>
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the Prosecutor of the<lb></lb>
abovenamed Prisoners Maketh Oath and Saith that he did attend this Honourable<lb></lb>
Court all Day Wednesday the first Day of this present Session and likewise all<lb></lb>
Day Thursday from nine of the Clock in the Morning until past Eight of the<lb></lb>
Clock in the Evening of the same Day And this Deponent not having had any<lb></lb>
Kind of Refreshment all that Day and finding himself very faint and weak<lb></lb>
for want of such Refreshment and being Informed by some Persons then in<lb></lb>
Court (who were utter Strangers to this Deponent) that the Tryal of the said<lb></lb>
abovenamed Prisoners would not come on to be Tryed that Night where upon<lb></lb>
this Deponent quitted the said Court and did not returns again that<lb></lb>
Evening by reason of the Information he had before received in Court as<lb></lb>
aforesaid and about half an Hour past seven the next Morning (one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1753-2">Thomas Chambers</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo894">Saint John<lb></lb>
Wapping</rs>
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this Deponents Witness on the said Indictments against the<lb></lb>
above Prisoners) to this Deponents great Surprise Informed this Deponent.<lb></lb>
that the said Prisoners had been tried the over Night and for Want of this<lb></lb>
Deponents Appearance to prosecute were severally Acquitted And this<lb></lb>
Deponent further saith had he suspected that the Tryal of the abovenamed<lb></lb>
Prisoners would have come on that Night he would have returned again<lb></lb>
after having received some Refreshment And this Deponent on his Oath<lb></lb>
possitively Saith that it was then his firm Resolution when this Deponent<lb></lb>
quitted the Court Thursday Evening to have prosecuted the abovenamed<lb></lb>
Prisoners for the Felony whereof they then stood Indicted and would have<lb></lb>
so done had not this Deponent been Misled by the Information he had<lb></lb>
before received in Court as aforesaid And that this Deponent did not<lb></lb>
desert the Prosecution of the abovenamed Prisoners or either of them out<lb></lb>
of any favour or affection towards them or either of them any other<lb></lb>
Motive whatsoever save as aforesaid</p>
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<p n="1755">Sworn in Court at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo895">Old<lb></lb>
Bailey</rs>
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in the Suburbs of the<lb></lb>
City London this 10th. day of<lb></lb>
Septr. 1768}</p>
<p n="1756">By the Court</p>
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