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<p n="2077"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1377">Old Bailey</rs>
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<p n="2078">London the King agst. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2078-1">James Lisle</rs>
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als <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2078-2">Wm. Johnson</rs>
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for felony</p>
<p n="2079"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2079-1">Thomas Slop</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1378">Lombard Street</rs>
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London Insurance Broker<lb></lb>
and prosecutor of the above prisoner maketh oath that at the last Session<lb></lb>
of Gaol Delivery holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1379">City of London</rs>
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he preferred an Indictment<lb></lb>
against the said prisoner for feloniously personating and assuming the<lb></lb>
Name and Character of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2079-2">Edward Stokes</rs>
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late a Seaman in board the Lively<lb></lb>
Harp is order to receive prize Money due to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2079-3">Edward Stokes</rs>
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and their<lb></lb>
Deponent with that the trial of such Indictment was at the prisoner<lb></lb>
request put off until the present session and this Deponent further saith<lb></lb>
the he is informed and believes that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2079-4">Edward Stokes</rs>
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who was personated<lb></lb>
is a material Witness in the above prosecution and without close testimony<lb></lb>
the Deponent cannot safely proceed to true therein and this Deponent<lb></lb>
Saith the Yesterday to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Deponent went to Brompter near Clapham<lb></lb>
in the County of Rent in order to fetch the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2079-5">Edward Stokes</rs>
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to Tour to gave<lb></lb>
evidence or the said trial and saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2079-6">Edward Stokes</rs>
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set out to<lb></lb>
come to Tour with this Deponent and that on their way upon the Road<lb></lb>
at Strood about twenty nine Miles distance the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2079-7">Edward Stokes</rs>
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fell<lb></lb>
from behind the Chaise in which their Deponent was riding by which means<lb></lb>
one of the Wheels of said Chaise passed over his body And he was so much<lb></lb>
last thereby that this Deponent left him in the care of Surgeon at Publick<lb></lb>
House he being quite unable to proceed on to Tour who promised Deponent<lb></lb>
he would send the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2079-8">Edward Stokes</rs>
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to London so soon as he should be sufficiently<lb></lb>
recovered, but he felt not yet to their Deponent knowledge or belief arrived in Tour<lb></lb>
and this Deponent is apprehensive he will not be able to do so before the present<lb></lb>
Session in ended.</p>
<p n="2080">Sworn the 8th. July 1784 at the<lb></lb>
Session House in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1380">old Bailey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
By the Court.</p>
<p n="2081"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2081-1">Thomas Stop</rs>
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