Middlesex Sessions.

The King on the prosecution of Christopher
Gildersleeves< no role >
against
Thomas Smith< no role > and Thomas Hudson< no role >

Charles Kane< no role > Clerk to William Stauy< no role > of Poland Street in the
County of Middlesex Solicitor for the defendants maketh oath
and saith That in consequence of a Bill of Indictment having
been preferred by the above named Christopher Gildersleeves< no role >
against the above named defendants and they having only
put in Bail to try the same at the present Sessions this
deponent made inquiry after the place of abode of the said
prosecutor in order to serve him personally with a Copy
of the Notice of Trial hereunto annexed and deponent was
informed that the said prosecutor lived in Vine Street
Westminster and this deponent Saith that on the seventeenth
Day of this Instant September he called at the Lodging of
the said prosecutor in Vine Street Westminster for the purpose
of serving him personally with such Notice hit was
informed as Deponent believes by the mistress of the House
that the said prosecutor was in the County and that his
return was [..] and further saith that in the
following day he again called at the lodging's of the
prosecutor and saw the wife of the prosecutor and informed
her that he wanted to see her Husband to serve him
with a Copy of the said Notice of Trial and requested her
to inform deponent where he might see him but the
declared to deponent she knew not where to find her
Husband the said prosecutor-that he had been in the
Country for Sometime and that he had partly desorted her
and deponent further saith that on the day after namely on the [..]
Instant he called again turce at the prosecutors Lodgings and
after repeating his enquires without attacking the least
information where deponent night he [..] said prosecutor
to serve him personally with the said Notice of Trial
the's deponent endeavoured to serve the said Notice
of Trial [..] the Wife of the said Prosector But the
refusing to receive the same and persisting in such
refusal this deponent threw the same being a true Copy
of the Notice hereunto annexed) towards her into there