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<p n="166">The King <lb></lb>
agst.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n166-1">Jane Bradley</rs>
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On the prosecution of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n166-2">William MacPherson</rs>
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for Felony</p>
<p n="167"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-1">Ann Allen</rs>
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wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-2">Thomas Allen</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo82">Drury Lane</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo83">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50502_occ43">Pawnbroker</rs>
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maketh oath that<lb></lb>
this Deponent in the month of February last past was bound in a Recognizance before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-3">Saunders Welch</rs>
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Esquire One of<lb></lb>
his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo84">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to appear at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo85">Hick's Hall</rs>
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to give Evidence<lb></lb>
against <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-4">Jane Bradley</rs>
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for Stealing a pair of Stockings And this Deponent further Saith that the<lb></lb>
prosecutor William MacPherson preferred a Bill of Indictment against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-5">Jane Bradley</rs>
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for Pettit<lb></lb>
Larceney at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo86">Hick's Hall</rs>
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in the month of February last for the said offence and which as this Deponent had been<lb></lb>
informed was to have been Tried at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo87">Hick's Hall</rs>
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aforesaid whereon this Deponent attended and gave<lb></lb>
Evidence on the said Indictment and the said Indictment being as this Deponent hath heard and beleives<lb></lb>
found a true Bill she this Deponent was told by the Deputy Clerk of the peace at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo88">Hick's Hall</rs>
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to attend<lb></lb>
the Court there the Thursday following to give her Evidence to the Court and Jury at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo89">Hick's Hall</rs>
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on the Trial of<lb></lb>
the said Indictment or to that effect And this Deponent further Saith that by mistake the said Indictment<lb></lb>
for Pettit Larceney was Sent to this Court and that to her great Surprize she was Informed by some of her<lb></lb>
Friends that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-6">Jane Bradley</rs>
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was tried for some other offence at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo90">old Bailey</rs>
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on the wednesday in<lb></lb>
the said month of February the Day before this Deponent was so ordered to attend to give Evidence against the said <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-7">Jane Bradley</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo91">Hick's Hall</rs>
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aforesaid and that She the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-8">Jane Bradley</rs>
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was also tried on the said Indictment in this<lb></lb>
Court whereon this Deponent was so bound to give Evidence against her and that She acquitted for want of the<lb></lb>
prosecutor this Deponent attending to give Evidence against her and Deponent Saith that the<lb></lb>
Indictment whereon this Deponent was bound to give Evidence against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-9">Jane Bradley</rs>
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being for Pettit Larceny this Deponent<lb></lb>
was told by the said Deputy Clerk of the Peace to attend at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo92">Hick's Hall</rs>
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on the Thursday<del>and</del>
on the Trial of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-10">Jane Bradley</rs>
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there which this Deponent Should have done if this Deponent had not been informed to her <lb></lb>
great Surprize that the said Indictment was returned to this Court and that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n167-11">Jane Bradley</rs>
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was tried<lb></lb>
thereon At the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo93">old Bailey</rs>
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against this Deponent knowledge the Day before this Deponent was ordered<lb></lb>
to attend the said Trial as aforesaid and this Deponent further Saith that She is wholly unacquainted<lb></lb>
both with the prosecutor and the said prisoner and this Deponents non attendance to give Evidence to this<lb></lb>
Honourable Court against the said Prisoner at the said Trial was not through any favour affection or<lb></lb>
reward or with any intent or inclination to Screen the said Prisoner from Justice on the Contrary this<lb></lb>
Deponent would have attended this Honourable Court on the said Trial had She had the least Notion or hint<lb></lb>
that the said prisoner would have been Tried before this Honourable Court But that Such non attendance<lb></lb>
was intirely owing to the Mistake of expecting that the said prisoner would have been Tried for the said<lb></lb>
Pettit Larceney at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo94">Hick's Hall</rs>
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pursuant to the Information so given this Deponent by the said Deputy<lb></lb>
Clerk of the Peace.</p>
<p n="168">Sworn in Court at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo95">Justice Hall</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo96">Old Baily</rs>
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this 24th. day of October 1761.<lb></lb>
By the Court</p>
<p n="169"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n169-1">Ann Allen</rs>
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