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<p n="1110">The King on the Prosecution<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50787_n1110-1">William King</rs>
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<lb></lb>
against<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50787_n1110-2">William Phillips</rs>
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<p n="1111"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50787_n1111-1">William Phillips</rs>
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of Serjeants Inn <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50787_geo1135">Chancesy Lane</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
the Defendant in this Prosecution maketh Oath and saith<lb></lb>
that Mr. Serjeant sayor who is a Material Witness in this<lb></lb>
Cause is absent from Town and will not return for several<lb></lb>
Days and also that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50787_n1111-2">William Towler</rs>
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Esquire another Material<lb></lb>
Witness in this Cause is now at the City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50787_geo1136">Chichester</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50787_geo1137">County of Sussex</rs>
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and could not possibly be suppened<lb></lb>
to appear by this time And also that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50787_n1111-3">Charles Henderson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50787_occ442">Esquire</rs>
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another very Material Witness in this Cause is now<lb></lb>
at Havre de Grase in the Province of Normandy but will<lb></lb>
be in London in about Ten Days And also that another<lb></lb>
very Material Witness in this Cause cannot be found at<lb></lb>
so short a Notice And this Deponent is advised that<lb></lb>
he cannot proceed to Trial with safety without their<lb></lb>
Evidence, all of whom he will be able to procure by<lb></lb>
the next Session therefore humbly begs that this Trial<lb></lb>
may he respited untill the next Session</p>
<p n="1112">Sworn in Court this 25th.<lb></lb>
Day of October 1784}</p>
<p n="1113">Hall</p>
<p n="1114">W: Phillips</p>
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