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(to wit)</note>
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The King on the prosecution<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n864-1">John Coom</rs>
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by against<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n864-2">Benjamin Flather</rs>
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for Felony</p>
<p n="865"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n865-1">John Coombs</rs>
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the prosecution above named maketh Oath and saith<lb></lb>
That the above named <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n865-2">Benjamin Flather</rs>
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was committed by the Hight<lb></lb>
Conourable the Lord Mayor in order to take his Tryal at the present<lb></lb>
session, and this Deponent was bound over to prosecute him for<lb></lb>
feloniously stealing a Linen Handkerchief of small value, this Deponent<lb></lb>
property, And this Deponent further saith that being unacquainted<lb></lb>
with the mode of prosecution he did not prefer any Bil of indictment<lb></lb>
though he attended every Day this Sessions at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15084_geo421">old Bailey</rs>
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, expecting<lb></lb>
he was to have been called by the Court, but met hearing his name<lb></lb>
called he yesterday and not before was informed by a person<lb></lb>
whose name he does not knows that he should have applied<lb></lb>
to the clerk of the array is to have preferred a Bill against the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15084_n865-4">Benjamin Flather</rs>
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which he immediately applied to him to do<lb></lb>
but found he was too late the Grand Jury having been discharged<lb></lb>
on saturday last</p>
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<p n="867">Sworn on Court at the Sessions House<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15084_geo422">old Bailey</rs>
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this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15084_date23">14th. Sept. 1773</rs>
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<p n="868">By the Court</p>
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