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<p n="1473"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">October Sessions 1788</note>
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The King<lb></lb>
against<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1473-1">Richard Clark</rs>
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<p n="1474"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-1">William Herne</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo894">Pater noster Row</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo895">City of London</rs>
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Gentleman<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that he this Deponent did on Saturday the Twelfth Day<lb></lb>
of July last past Attend at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo896">Guildhall</rs>
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London with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-2">Ambrose Martin</rs>
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of Finch Lane London Wanker in Order to Prosecute the abovenamed<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-3">Richard Clark</rs>
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for Felony and Forgery before Mr. Alderman Le Messnier<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-4">Richard Clark</rs>
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was Committed to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo897">Wood Street</rs>
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Compter for<lb></lb>
further Examination on thursday the Seventeenth Day of July then<lb></lb>
next following And this Deponent further saith the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-5">Ambrose<lb></lb>
Martin</rs>
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was bound over to Appear again as this Deponent understood<lb></lb>
on the said Thursday the seventeenth Day of July on the further<lb></lb>
Examination of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-6">Richard Clark</rs>
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And this Deponent further<lb></lb>
saith the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-7">Ambrose Martin</rs>
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and this Deponent accordingly<lb></lb>
Attended on the said Seventeenth Day of July and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-8">Ambrose<lb></lb>
Martin</rs>
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was again Examined before the said Alderman when the said<lb></lb>
Alderman was of Opinion there was not sufficient Ground to Charge<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-9">Richard Clark</rs>
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with Felony and Forgery and the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-10">Richard Clark</rs>
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was by the said Alderman discharged And this<lb></lb>
Deponent further saith that he fully understood and believed that the<lb></lb>
Recognizance of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-11">Ambrose Martin</rs>
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was then discharged<lb></lb>
if he had not he would certainly have taken Care the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-12">Ambrose<lb></lb>
Martin</rs>
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should have Prosecuted or that the said Recognizance should<lb></lb>
have been discharged and that it was as this Deponent Apprehends a<lb></lb>
Mistake of the Clerk to the sitting Alderman in Drawing up the<lb></lb>
said Recognizance to prosecute the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-13">Richard Clark</rs>
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on the said<lb></lb>
Twelfth Day of July last which should have been for the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-14">Ambrose<lb></lb>
Martin</rs>
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to Appear as the seventeenth of July on the Further Examination<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1474-15">Richard Clark</rs>
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<p n="1475">Sworn in Court at the Session House <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo898">Old Bailey</rs>
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this Twenty third, Day of October 1788}</p>
<p n="1476">By the Court</p>
<p n="1477"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1477-1">Wm: Herne</rs>
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