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17th July 1749 - 10th December 1750

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The King
agt.
William Watson< no role >

Thomas Perkins< no role > of Clements Inn in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman maketh Oath that he this Deponent hath been credibly
informed & verily beleives that the above named Deft. William Watson< no role >
(mentioned in the annexed Warrant under the Hand of Girton Peake< no role > Esqr
and Indorsed by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London)
& whose name is also mentioned in the two severall Letters of Thomas
Cecill
< no role > hereunto annexed and the [..] of the information hereunto also
annexed is now a Prisoner in Custody of the Keeper of Newgate for
Felony and Saith That he hath this Day seem the said William
Watson in Newgate and that the said William Watson< no role > in all respects
Answers to the Description given of him in the Letter of the Twenty third
Day of Decd. last hereto annexed andowned tothis Deponent saith ye said Watson owned to this Deponent that he was born at Burton
upon Trent in Staffordshire and that he lived about two years agoe
wth. he Moore of Birmingham And this Dept. further Saith That he
is very well acquainted with the Hand writeing of the said Thomas
Cecill who
< no role > is an Attorney of Great Eminence in Birmingham aforesaid
and saith that both the said Letters hereto annexed are of his the said
Thomas Cecills own Hand writeing as this Dept. verily beleives

Tho Perkins< no role >

Sworn at Justice Hall in
the Old Baily Wednesday
17th July 1749 .

By the Court Etc




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