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in the Fields in the
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Linnen Draper
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maketh
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Oath and Saith that on the 12th day of March in the Year of our
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Lord 1784 this Deponent detected one
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stealing a
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Piece of Cloth out of this Deponent's Shop of the Value of one
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Pound seventeen Shillings And that on the same day of the
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same Month this Deponent procured the said
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Mary Creed
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to be
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taken up for the said offence and to be carried before
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William
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Hyde
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Esquire of the
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Justices of the Peace
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for the said
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County
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who committed the said
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Margaret Creed
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to Newgate
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and bound over this Deponent in a Recognizance in the Sum
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of £40 to prosecute the said
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Margaret Creed
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for the said Offence
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and this Deponent did accordingly on the twenty seventh day of March
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attend at
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and did prefer a Bill of Indictment against
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the said
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for the said Offence to the Grand Jury there
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which was Found and this Deponent did attend at the Sessions
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held at the
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on the twenty eighth day of March now last
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and was informed the said Trial would come on the next day
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and he did accordingly attend the next day from Nine O Clock
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in the Morning until three O Clock in the Afternoon when this
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Deponent found himself much fatigued and wished to get some
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refreshment that at that time a Trial of Several Persons was
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then depending for Murder which the door keeper told this
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Deponent
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Deponent would last a long time there being six Witnesses then
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to be examined and this Deponent observed there was another
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Trial sett down in the Paper fixed up in the Yard of the Court
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House before the Trial of the said
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and was informed
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by the said Door Keeper he might safely be about an House
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Wherefore this Deponent thought the Trial of the said
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could not come on in less time than one Hour and for
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the sake of getting some refreshment went to the London
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Coffee
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in
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but previously informed one
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Westray who was also bound to prosecute the said
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Margaret Creed
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where he was going to and desired the said Westray
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to come and fetch him in Case he should be wanted which the
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said Westray promised to do And this Deponent further
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says that he then went to the London
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aforesaid
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and sat there in the Public Coffee room and in less than three
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quarters of another after he had been there one Leach
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came into the said Coffee Room and told this Deponent
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that his Trial was over and that his Recognizance would be
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