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entirely, and for no other Cause whatsoever, than that he did not
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would so soon have been
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called upon his Trial, and that he this Deponent would
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have been in time, when he returned from Dinner to appear
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for the
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and John
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Fairweather for themselves severally say, that they appeared
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for the Felony aforesaid
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and were waiting at Four Kings Alehouse in the Old
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Bailey to have some Refreshment at the time the Trial
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was called on, and that
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the only reason of their not being in Cout, was, through
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the Information they received, and which they verily
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William
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was not likely to be tried in two or three hours at
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least And these Deponents Further sayth, that they
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on Account of believing, that they could safely go and
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have some Refreshment, and that their return to the
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Sworn in Court this
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By the Court
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