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The King on the Prosecution of
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maketh Oath and saith That the above named Deft. Mary
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Wilcox having been fully committed to take her Trial at the last
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April
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sessions to this
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gave Directions to the
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Clerk of the Arraigns for preparing the necessary Indictment
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that the same was accordingly prepared-That no Business
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having been transacted on the second day of the said sessions
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this Deponent apprehended and verily believed that the Grand
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Jury would not be discharged till the afternoon of the Monday
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after the Commencement thereof-That on the Morning of
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Monday following the Commencement of the said Sessions
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this
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House for the purpose of giving Evidence before the Grand Jury
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and finding the said Bill but this
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was then
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informed to his great suprize that they had been discharged
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the Saturday preceeding-That this
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on the third day
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of June last and the same having been found by the Grand
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obtained a Judges Warrant thereon and
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used every means in his power to get the said
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apprehended and after much Trouble & Expence to this
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she was taken the 14th. Day of July and committed on
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the
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Fifteenth day of Julylast And this Deponent also
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saith That he did not omit to attend the Grand Jury
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during their setting at the April Sessions out of any
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