The King agt. Samuel Arrowsmith< no role > .

William Griffiths< no role > of Compton in the County of Gloucester Gentleman
maketh Oath that on or about the Eighth Day of March last The Right Honble
The Lord Mayor of the City of London granted two several Warrants against
the abovenamed Samuel Arrowsmith< no role > and Edward Wilson< no role > upon the Informations
of the Right Honble The Lord Chedworth, this Deponent, Henry Clarke< no role > ,
James Blackburn< no role > and Jocelyn Farrington< no role > for divers Felonies and Forgeries
in the said Warrants specified and saith that at that time the said Edward
Wilson being in York Goal upon Suspicion of Forgery this Deponent procured
a Habeas Corpus to remove him from York Goal to Gloucester and this Depont.
at a great Expence immediately set out to York and procured the said Wilson
tobe removed by Virtue of such Writ accordingly and saith that as soon as the
said Edward Wilson< no role > was removed he this Deponent applied to William Bell< no role >
Esquire one of His Majesty's Justices of the peace for the said County to get the
said Lord Mayor's Warrant endorsed in order to apprehend the said Arrowsmith
who at that time was under Bail to appear at Gloucester Assizes upon Suspicion
of being concerned with the said Wilson in such Felonies and Forgeries and saith
that the said Mr. Bell did accordingly endorse the said Warrant but this being at the
time of the Assizes for Gloucester the said Arrowsmith, who as this Deponent
believes, had Notice of the said Wilson's being removed to Gloucester Goal imediately
and without this Deponents Knowledge or Consent and to this Deponents great
Surprize indicted the said Wilson for another Forgery which had no Relation to
any of the Felonies or Forgeries contained in the aforesaid Warrants or for which
he this Deponent intended to prosecute the said Arrowsmith And saith that he
this Deponent and his Friends looking upon such Proceeding of the said
Arrowsmith against the said Wilson to be an extraordinary Artifice to make
himself the King's Evidence he this Deponent at the said Assizes applied to the
Honble Mr. Justice Wilmot and upon the Representation of this Case to him
he