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saith That he being on Saturday the Eighth Day of September one Thousand
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seven hundred and seventy appointed
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aforesaid and the Session of the Peace for the same County being
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appointed to be held on the Monday following He this Deponents
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with the Approbation of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland
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Custos Rotulorum of the said County appointed the other Deponent
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Preparation for the Execution of the said Office and for the holding
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of the said Sessions he this Deponent did on the same Saturday
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with intent to have requested them to deliver
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the same to him but not being able to find either of them this
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Deponent then left at the said Mr. Waller's office with one
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there a Note in Writing
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to the said Mr. Waller requiring him to deliver to this Deponent
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the Records, Files, Books, Papers and Entries of Proceedings and
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other Matters relating to the said Office in his the said Mr Waller's
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Custody but did not obtain any of them till the Monday following
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when on a Message being sent by the Court to the said
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for the said Records, the Sessions Books and Indictments
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of May and July preceding and some trishing Papers were brought
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into Court by the Messenger at the Bag bearer and the same Morning
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these Deponents according to the best of their Recollection found in
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the Locker of the Table in the Court Room some Files of Indictments
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and Recognizances of the Year on thousand seven hundred and
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sixty nine and the File of Indictments and Recognizances of
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January Sessions one thousand seven hundred and seventy and
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the Tiles of Indictments of the two following Sessions in February
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and April without Recognizances and upon going up Stairs they
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found the Key of the Record Room in the door but they did not
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then or at any Time since to their Recollection or Belief find any
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Records Books or Papers necessary for making out the Estreat in
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Question in the said Record Room or elsewhere And there Deponent
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each speaking for himself
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severally say that the Court being still under great Difficulty
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to proceed on the Business for Want of other Records, Files, Books
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Waller or at his Office or Chambers, an Order of Court was made
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on the Second Day of the said Session being Tuesday the eleventh
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Day of the same September for the said
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to deliver
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Canver them to be delivered into Court at Hicks Hall and that in
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