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The King<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n327-1">Richard Harrison</rs>
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Indicted on the Prosecution of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n327-2">Robert<lb></lb>
Shortis</rs>
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for the Crime of Perjury.</p>
<p n="328"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n328-1">Richard Harrison</rs>
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one of the Turnkeys belonging to the Prison of the<lb></lb>
Poultey Compter London the Defendant in this Cause maketh Oath that Jane<lb></lb>
Slate last of Hughes's Court in Water Lane <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50682_geo207">Blackfryars</rs>
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London is as this<lb></lb>
Deponent hath been advised and verily beleives a material Witness for the<lb></lb>
Deponent on the Trial of the Indictment against this Deponent on the<lb></lb>
Prosecution of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n328-2">Robert Shortis</rs>
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for the Crime of Perjury and that without<lb></lb>
the Benefit of the Testimony of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n328-3">Jane Slate</rs>
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on the said Trial this Deponent<lb></lb>
cannot as he is advised and beleives safely take his Trial on the said Indictment<lb></lb>
at this present Session And this Deponent saith that Yesterday he made<lb></lb>
Enquiry for the said Jane Slate in order to have her served with a subpeena<lb></lb>
to appear as a Witness for this Deponent on his said Trial and received<lb></lb>
Information that she was dangerously ill in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50682_geo208">Saint Bartholomews Hospital</rs>
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And this Dept. saith that he did this Morning go to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50682_geo209">Saint Bartholomew's<lb></lb>
Hospital</rs>
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and there saw the said Jane Slate in Faith's Ward who informed<lb></lb>
this Deponent that She had been for about the Space of Ten Week past afflicted<lb></lb>
with Sickness and was unable on Account of such Sickness to attend as<lb></lb>
a Witness for this Deponent at this Session and which Information this<lb></lb>
Deponent beleives to be true And lastly this Deponent saith that the said<lb></lb>
Jane Slate appeared to this Deponent to be dangerously ill and unable to<lb></lb>
be removed from the said Hospital without the utmost Danger of<lb></lb>
losing her Life.</p>
<p n="329">Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50682_geo210">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50682_geo211">Saint<lb></lb>
John Street</rs>
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the fifteenth Day of<lb></lb>
July 1778.}</p>
<p n="330">W.</p>
<p n="331"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n331-1">Richard Harrison</rs>
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