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<p n="761"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo309">Middlesex</rs>
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Octr. Sessions</note>
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The King on the Prosecution of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50915_n761-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Gibson</rs>
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agst. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50915_n761-2">Thos. Harcock</rs>
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<p n="762"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50915_n762-1">Thomas Gibson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo310">Oxford Road</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo311">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Linen Draper<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50915_n761-48">Charles Charter</rs>
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of Bartholomew<obscured></obscured>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo313">City of London</rs>
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Attorney at Law severally make Oath and say and first this Deponent<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50915_n762-2">Thomas Gibson</rs>
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for himself saith That on Wednesday the sixth day<lb></lb>
of May last being informed by a Friend of this Deponent that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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a Person of the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50915_n762-3">Thos. Harcock</rs>
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was in Custody for obtaining<lb></lb>
Goods under false pretences of a Silkman in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo314">Wood Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo315">Cheap<lb></lb>
side</rs>
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and was to be Examined at the Public Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo316">Hatton Garden</rs>
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that day Deponent accordingly Attended to see if it was the same<lb></lb>
person who had obtained Goods of Deponent under the same<lb></lb>
pretences when their Deponent found, it was<del>the same</del>
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And this Deponent further saith that immediately after the Examinant<lb></lb>
of the parties were closed and Bound over to Prosecute Deponent<lb></lb>
related his Case to the setting Majestrate and Deponent was<lb></lb>
Bound over to Prosecute are above name Thos. Harcock likewise<lb></lb>
And this Deponent further saith that not knowing the nature<lb></lb>
of a Prosecution Deponent expected he should have notice when to<lb></lb>
Attend the Trial And this Deponent further said that in the<lb></lb>
21st. May last on reading a Newspaper he accidintally saw the<lb></lb>
the Sessions had begun which struct him that the stod Attending<lb></lb>
Deponent accordingly went to the Public Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo317">Hatton Garden</rs>
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to be informed how he shod. Proceed when a Clerk informed<lb></lb>
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that he must go to the Session House <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50915_geo318">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
Proper his Bill of Indictment Dept. went Immediately and gave<lb></lb>
Instructions and was desired to come again the next day<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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when the Bill should to ready Dept. accordingly went and attended<lb></lb>
before the Grand Jury and a true Bill was found</p>
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