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<p n="1225"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1225-1">Edward Davies</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1250">Holborn Bridge</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1251">City of London</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ507">Grocer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1225-2">George Evans</rs>
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of the same place <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ508">Apothecary</rs>
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<lb></lb>
severally make Oath and say And first the Deponent Edward<lb></lb>
Davis for himself saith that about the latter end of the Month<lb></lb>
of July last one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1225-3">Henry Smith</rs>
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feloniously stole a Handkerchief<lb></lb>
belonging to this Deponent out of this Deponent's pocket at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1252">Holborn Bridge</rs>
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aforesaid and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1225-4">Henry Smith</rs>
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being<lb></lb>
detected in committing such Offence was apprehended and a<lb></lb>
taken into Custody And this Deponent saith that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1225-5">Henry Smith</rs>
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was the next day examined before the then<lb></lb>
Sitting Alderman at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1253">Guildhall</rs>
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London touching the said<lb></lb>
Felony and was by him committed to one of the City<lb></lb>
Compters and this Deponent then became bound in a<lb></lb>
Recognizance to prosecute the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1225-6">Henry Smith</rs>
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And this<lb></lb>
Deponent saith that in the begining of the Month of August<lb></lb>
last he this Deponent was taken ill with a violent Fever<lb></lb>
attended with the Ague and from which fit of illness this<lb></lb>
Deponent hath only recovered within the present Month<lb></lb>
And this Deponent saith that from the time of the commencement<lb></lb>
of his said illness until the very day of his quitting Town as<lb></lb>
hereinafter mentioned he this Deponent was under the care<lb></lb>
of the other Deponent <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1225-7">George Evans</rs>
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as his Apothecary when<lb></lb>
the Fever in a small degree had abated but this Deponent<lb></lb>
then being in a very weak state of Body occasioned by the<lb></lb>
said Illness he was advised by the other Deponent and his<lb></lb>
Friends in general to go into the Country for the benefit of<lb></lb>
the Air in order to reestablish his Health and strength<lb></lb>
And this Deponent saith that under such advice and for such<lb></lb>
purpose as aforesaid and no other he this Deponent quitted<lb></lb>
London on Monday the Twenty eighth day of August last<lb></lb>
to go to Margate in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1254">County of Kent</rs>
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at which place he<lb></lb>
remained in a very weak and infirm state of Body until the<lb></lb>
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