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<p n="629"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Octr Sessr.<lb></lb>
1785</note>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo468">Old Bailey</rs>
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<p n="630"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n630-1">Hugh Wright</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo469">Retcliff Highway</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo470">parish of St George</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo471">Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ247">Linnen Draper</rs>
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Maketh Oath and Saith that he this deponent<lb></lb>
was Summon'd to attend as a Juror in this Honorable Court in the Month of<lb></lb>
October last and this Deponent saith that he keeps a Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo472">Ratcliff</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo473">Highway</rs>
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aforesaid of that at the time this Deponent should have attended<lb></lb>
this Honorable Court on duly as a Juror aforesaid It happen'd that this<lb></lb>
deponents Servant who had the Chief care & Management of this Deponents Shop<lb></lb>
and Business in the Linnen Drapery Trade went away from the Service of<lb></lb>
this Deponent whereby this Deponent was very much Embarass'd in his sd<lb></lb>
Trade or Business not being then able to procure a Servant Qualified to Manage<lb></lb>
the same in the absence of this Deponent & this Deponent saith if he this<lb></lb>
Deponent had attended as a Juror as aforesaid this Deponent would have been<lb></lb>
Oblig'd to Shut his said Shop during the time of his absence as this Deponent<lb></lb>
could not have the Care & Management thereof to any unesperined person<lb></lb>
without the Risk of Sustaining great Injury in his said Business & this<lb></lb>
Deponent saith he did not absent himself from his Duty as a Juror as<lb></lb>
aforesaid out of Contempt or Disrespect to the Honorable Court to which he<lb></lb>
was Summon'd as a Juror but merely from the Distress'd Situation this<lb></lb>
Deponent was then in for Want of a Person Qualified to take care of this<lb></lb>
Deponents Business as Aforesaid</p>
<p n="631">Sworn in Court this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15096_date76">22d Day of October 1785</rs>
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By the Court</p>
<p n="632">H Wright</p>
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