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The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1507-1">Frances Clarke</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1507-2">Charlotte Walker</rs>
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For Felony</p>
<p n="1508"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1508-1">Benjamin Powell</rs>
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of the parish of Saint Giles in the<lb></lb>
fieldg in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo921">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Maketh Oath and<lb></lb>
saith That on the Twelfth day of March now last past<lb></lb>
this Deponent was attending at the Public Office in Hyde<lb></lb>
Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo922">Bloomsbury</rs>
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upon parish business and heard a Charge<lb></lb>
made against the prisoners before the then sitting Justice<lb></lb>
on suspicion of Stealing a Watch and same But this<lb></lb>
Deponent had nothing to do with the Matter Neither was<lb></lb>
he Examined thereon And this Deponent further Saith<lb></lb>
That he was very much Alarmed upon the Receipt of the<lb></lb>
Letter from <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1508-2">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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Esquire hereunto Annexed<lb></lb>
and made Enquiry at the Justices Office when he found<lb></lb>
that his Name was Entered in the Justices Recognizance<lb></lb>
Book with the Names of the Constable of the Night and<lb></lb>
the Watchman and where it appeared That this Deponent<lb></lb>
was bound over to give Evidence against the Prisoners<lb></lb>
at the then next April Sessions And this Deponent<lb></lb>
further Saith That his Name must have been Entered<lb></lb>
in the Justices Recognizance Book by Mistake And<lb></lb>
that it this Deponent had had any Notice That he<lb></lb>
was bound over to give Evidence against the prisoners<lb></lb>
on the said Charge he would have readily Attended<lb></lb>
this Honorable Court pursuant to such Recognizance<lb></lb>
And this Deponent upon his Oath further Saith<lb></lb>
That he did not know That he was so bound over to<lb></lb>
give Evidence as aforesaid untill the Receipt of the Letter</p>
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