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severally make Oath and say And first the Deponent Edward
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Davis for himself saith that about the latter end of the Month
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feloniously stole a Handkerchief
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being
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detected in committing such Offence was apprehended and a
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taken into Custody And this Deponent saith that the said
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Felony and was by him committed to one of the City
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Compters and this Deponent then became bound in a
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Recognizance to prosecute the said
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Deponent saith that in the begining of the Month of August
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last he this Deponent was taken ill with a violent Fever
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attended with the Ague and from which fit of illness this
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Deponent hath only recovered within the present Month
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And this Deponent saith that from the time of the commencement
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of his said illness until the very day of his quitting Town as
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hereinafter mentioned he this Deponent was under the care
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as his Apothecary when
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the Fever in a small degree had abated but this Deponent
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then being in a very weak state of Body occasioned by the
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said Illness he was advised by the other Deponent and his
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Friends in general to go into the Country for the benefit of
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the Air in order to reestablish his Health and strength
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And this Deponent saith that under such advice and for such
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purpose as aforesaid and no other he this Deponent quitted
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London on Monday the Twenty eighth day of August last
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to go to Margate in the
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at which place he
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remained in a very weak and infirm state of Body until the
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