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<p n="2013"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-1">John Cookson</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1572">Inner Temple</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1573">London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15091_occ692">Esquire</rs>
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maketh Oath and<lb></lb>
saith that on the Seventeenth Day of November last <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-2">John Pollard</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
committed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1574">New prison</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1575">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-3">Elizabeth Pollard</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
committed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1576">Tothill Fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1577">Bridewell</rs>
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both charged for knowingly<lb></lb>
sending and delivering to this Deponent in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1578">City of London</rs>
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a cert<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Letter with the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-4">Elizabeth Pollard</rs>
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subscribed thereto threatning<lb></lb>
to accuse this Deponent of a Crime punishable by Law with Death<lb></lb>
Transportation Pillory or some other infamous Parish meat with<lb></lb>
a view and intent to extort and gain Money Goods wares or Merchandizes<lb></lb>
from this Deponent contrary to the Statute Etc as appears to this<lb></lb>
Deponent by a Copy or Extract of the Commitments of the said John<lb></lb>
Pollard and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-5">Elizabeth Pollard</rs>
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And this Deponent saith that James<lb></lb>
Wilson is a material Witness for this Deponent or preferring such<lb></lb>
Bill or Bills of Indictment against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-6">John Pollard</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-7">Elizabeth Pollard</rs>
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as this Deponent was advised were proper to be<lb></lb>
exhibited to the Grand Inquest for the said City touching the Charges<lb></lb>
aforesaid and that without the Benefit of the Testimony of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-8">James Wilson</rs>
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this Deponent could not with Safety as he was<lb></lb>
advised and verily beleives prefer such Bill or Bills of Indictment<lb></lb>
against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-9">John Pollard</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-10">Elizabeth Pollard</rs>
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at the present<lb></lb>
Session of Oyer and Terminer holden for the said City and this<lb></lb>
Deponent saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-11">James Wilson</rs>
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is a Member of Parliament<lb></lb>
for the County of Antrim in the Kingdom of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1579">Ireland</rs>
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and is also<lb></lb>
a Commander of one of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-12">His Majesty</rs>
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's Cutters stationed upon the<lb></lb>
Coast of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1580">Ireland</rs>
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and above three Weeks ago left London in order to<lb></lb>
Attend his Duty there and at the time of his so leaving London he<lb></lb>
promised this Deponent that he would if possible return to London<lb></lb>
so as to be able to attend at the present Session And this Deponent<lb></lb>
saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n2013-13">James Wilson</rs>
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is not yet arrived in this Kingdom<lb></lb>
to the Knowledge or Belief of this Deponent And this Deponent</p>
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