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<p n="1477"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1477-1">Richard Jeston Case</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo978">Charing Cross</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo979">Parish of St Martins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Fields in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo980">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ354">Linnen Draper</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath and Saith that on the 12th day of March in the Year of our<lb></lb>
Lord 1784 this Deponent detected one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1477-2">Margaret Creed</rs>
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stealing a<lb></lb>
Piece of Cloth out of this Deponent's Shop of the Value of one<lb></lb>
Pound seventeen Shillings And that on the same day of the<lb></lb>
same Month this Deponent procured the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1477-3">Mary Creed</rs>
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to be<lb></lb>
taken up for the said offence and to be carried before <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1477-4">William<lb></lb>
Hyde</rs>
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Esquire of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ355">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo981">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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who committed the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1477-5">Margaret Creed</rs>
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to Newgate<lb></lb>
and bound over this Deponent in a Recognizance in the Sum<lb></lb>
of £40 to prosecute the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1477-6">Margaret Creed</rs>
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for the said Offence<lb></lb>
and this Deponent did accordingly on the twenty seventh day of March<lb></lb>
attend at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo982">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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and did prefer a Bill of Indictment against<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1477-7">Margaret Creed</rs>
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for the said Offence to the Grand Jury there<lb></lb>
which was Found and this Deponent did attend at the Sessions<lb></lb>
held at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo983">Old Bailey</rs>
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on the twenty eighth day of March now last<lb></lb>
and was informed the said Trial would come on the next day<lb></lb>
and he did accordingly attend the next day from Nine O Clock<lb></lb>
in the Morning until three O Clock in the Afternoon when this<lb></lb>
Deponent found himself much fatigued and wished to get some<lb></lb>
refreshment that at that time a Trial of Several Persons was<lb></lb>
then depending for Murder which the door keeper told this<del>Deponent</del>
<lb></lb>
Deponent would last a long time there being six Witnesses then<lb></lb>
to be examined and this Deponent observed there was another<lb></lb>
Trial sett down in the Paper fixed up in the Yard of the Court<lb></lb>
House before the Trial of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1477-8">Margaret Creed</rs>
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and was informed<lb></lb>
by the said Door Keeper he might safely be about an House<lb></lb>
Wherefore this Deponent thought the Trial of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1477-9">Margaret<lb></lb>
Creed</rs>
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could not come on in less time than one Hour and for<lb></lb>
the sake of getting some refreshment went to the London <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo984">Coffee<lb></lb>
House</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo985">Ludgate Street</rs>
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but previously informed one<lb></lb>
Westray who was also bound to prosecute the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1477-10">Margaret Creed</rs>
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<lb></lb>
where he was going to and desired the said Westray<lb></lb>
to come and fetch him in Case he should be wanted which the<lb></lb>
said Westray promised to do And this Deponent further<lb></lb>
says that he then went to the London <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo986">Coffee House</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
and sat there in the Public Coffee room and in less than three<lb></lb>
quarters of another after he had been there one Leach<lb></lb>
came into the said Coffee Room and told this Deponent<lb></lb>
that his Trial was over and that his Recognizance would be</p>
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