The King against Joshua Wood< no role > for a Misdeameanour
in unlawfully conveying and delivering to William
Frankland< no role > or prisoner in Newgate severall Instruments
for the use of Thomas Pearce< no role > James Moor< no role >
otherwise Lemoor< no role > and John Waters< no role > three prisoners
also in Newgate to the Intent that they should
break the said Goal of Newgate and Escape and
go at Large thereout

William Salt< no role > of the old Baily London Gentleman maketh oath and
Saith That a certain bill of Indictment against the Defendant is
and was prepared to be exhibited to the Grand Jurors of the City of London
on Thursday the fifth Day of this Instant September for the above
offence, That the said William Frankland< no role > who is a prisoner for
Debt and in Execution is a material Witness on behalf of the Crown
to prove the Charge specified in the said Indictment and this Deponent
further saith that he this Deponent on the said Thursday did make
inquiry if any of the Judges of his majesty's Court of King's bench were
in Town in order to bring a habeas Corpus to remove the said
Frankland from the said Gaol of Newgate to the Sessions at Justice
Hall to be sworn and give Evidence upon the said Indictment to the
said Jurors and that upon the said Inquiry this Deponent was informed
by Robert Thomas< no role > Tipstaff to Mr. Justice probyn that no one of the
Judges of the said Court of King's Bench were then in Town by
means whereof a habeas Corpus could not at this present Sessions
be obtained for the purposes aforesaid and this Deponent further
saith that without the Testimony of the said William Frankland< no role >
the said bill of Indictment could not nor yet can safely be
Exhibited to the Jurors.

Sworn at Justice Hall in the
Old Baily the 6th Sepr. 1740

By the Court

Will Salt< no role >