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The King against
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or prisoner in Newgate severall Instruments
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three prisoners
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also in Newgate to the Intent that they should
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break the said Goal of Newgate and Escape and
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go at Large thereout
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William Salt
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maketh oath and
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Saith That a certain bill of Indictment against the Defendant is
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and was prepared to be exhibited to the Grand Jurors of the
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on Thursday the fifth Day of this Instant September for the above
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offence, That the said
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William Frankland
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who is a prisoner for
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Debt and in Execution is a material Witness on behalf of the Crown
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to prove the Charge specified in the said Indictment and this Deponent
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further saith that he this Deponent on the said Thursday did make
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inquiry if any of the Judges of his majesty's
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were
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in Town in order to bring a habeas Corpus to remove the said
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Frankland from the said Gaol of Newgate to the Sessions at Justice
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said Jurors and that upon the said Inquiry this Deponent was informed
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by
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to Mr. Justice probyn that no one of the
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were then in Town by
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means whereof a habeas Corpus could not at this present Sessions
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be obtained for the purposes aforesaid and this Deponent further
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saith that without the Testimony of the said
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the said bill of Indictment could not nor yet can safely be
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Exhibited to the Jurors.
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Sworn at Justice Hall in the
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By the Court
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