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The King
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On the prosecution of
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wife of
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of
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maketh oath that
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this Deponent in the month of February last past was bound in a Recognizance before
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Saunders Welch
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Esquire One of
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his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the
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to appear at
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to give Evidence
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for Stealing a pair of Stockings And this Deponent further Saith that the
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prosecutor William MacPherson preferred a Bill of Indictment against the said
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for Pettit
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Larceney at
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in the month of February last for the said offence and which as this Deponent had been
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informed was to have been Tried at
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aforesaid whereon this Deponent attended and gave
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Evidence on the said Indictment and the said Indictment being as this Deponent hath heard and beleives
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found a true Bill she this Deponent was told by the Deputy Clerk of the peace at
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to attend
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on the Trial of
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the said Indictment or to that effect And this Deponent further Saith that by mistake the said Indictment
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for Pettit Larceney was Sent to this Court and that to her great Surprize she was Informed by some of her
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Friends that the said
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was tried for some other offence at the
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on the wednesday in
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the said month of February the Day before this Deponent was so ordered to attend to give Evidence against the said
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at
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aforesaid and that She the said
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was also tried on the said Indictment in this
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Court whereon this Deponent was so bound to give Evidence against her and that She acquitted for want of the
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prosecutor this Deponent attending to give Evidence against her and Deponent Saith that the
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Indictment whereon this Deponent was bound to give Evidence against the said
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being for Pettit Larceny this Deponent
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was told by the said Deputy Clerk of the Peace to attend at
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on the Thursday
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on the Trial of the
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there which this Deponent Should have done if this Deponent had not been informed to her
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great Surprize that the said Indictment was returned to this Court and that the said
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was tried
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thereon At the
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against this Deponent knowledge the Day before this Deponent was ordered
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to attend the said Trial as aforesaid and this Deponent further Saith that She is wholly unacquainted
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both with the prosecutor and the said prisoner and this Deponents non attendance to give Evidence to this
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Honourable Court against the said Prisoner at the said Trial was not through any favour affection or
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reward or with any intent or inclination to Screen the said Prisoner from Justice on the Contrary this
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Deponent would have attended this Honourable Court on the said Trial had She had the least Notion or hint
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that the said prisoner would have been Tried before this Honourable Court But that Such non attendance
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was intirely owing to the Mistake of expecting that the said prisoner would have been Tried for the said
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Pettit Larceney at
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pursuant to the Information so given this Deponent by the said Deputy
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Clerk of the Peace.
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Sworn in Court at
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Justice Hall
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in the
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this 24th. day of October 1761.
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By the Court
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Ann Allen
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