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<p n="367">by the Lord Chief Justice Mansfield and was thereupon detained in<lb></lb>
Custody till the Saturday following because the said prosecutor <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n367-1">John Raper</rs>
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could<lb></lb>
not be found to be versed with Notice of Bad thos he this Deponent<lb></lb>
repeatealy desired to knows who he was and where he might be found and<lb></lb>
that on the said Saturday he was carried before Mr. Justice Wilmot to be<lb></lb>
Bailed who was pleased to discharge this Deponent upon Bail And this<lb></lb>
Deponent further saith that during such his said Confinement a person on<lb></lb>
behalf of the said Defedants made several offers that if he this Deponent<lb></lb>
would Relase the said Defendants that Raper should Release him and<lb></lb>
should be immediately discharged without further Trouble which he<lb></lb>
refused to Comply with And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n367-2">James Reading</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
saith that he this Deponent hath ever since the said Haviland was so<lb></lb>
Arrested as aforesaid endeavoured by all ways means Searches and<lb></lb>
Inquires he could possibly use or make to know who the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n367-3">John<lb></lb>
Raper</rs>
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was and where he might be found in order that he might be<lb></lb>
served with Notice of Tryal for this present October Session and that<lb></lb>
notwithstanding all such his diligence to this Deponent hath not been<lb></lb>
able to find out the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n367-4">John Raper</rs>
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or his place of abide or any<lb></lb>
thing of him And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n367-5">Robert Carpenter</rs>
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for himself saith<lb></lb>
that at the request of the other Deponent Thomas Haviland this Depont<lb></lb>
did apply to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50527_occ102">Tipstaff</rs>
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who had the said Thomas Haviland so in Custody<lb></lb>
as aforesaid to be informed where the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n367-6">John Raper</rs>
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might be found to be<lb></lb>
served with such last mentioned Notice of trial and the said Tipstaff<lb></lb>
declared he never saw nor knew any thin of him but received his Warrant<lb></lb>
from the said Defendant Pauley And Lastly all these Deponents<lb></lb>
Jointly and severally respectively say that they do believe there is not any<lb></lb>
such person as <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n367-7">John Raper</rs>
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upon and that they neither Know or believe there is such a person as <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n367-8">William Smith</rs>
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was<obscured></obscured>
but that the said Presecution against the<lb></lb>
Deponent Thomas Haviland is set on foot by the contrivance of the said<lb></lb>
Defendants in a false and feigned name to distress the said Haviland and<lb></lb>
exact Releases from him.</p>
<p n="368"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n368-1">Thos Haviland</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n368-2">Robert Carpenter</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50527_n368-3">James Reading</rs>
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</p>
<p n="369">Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo202">Hick's Hall</rs>
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21st. October 1763</p>
<p n="370">By the Court<lb></lb>
Waller</p>
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