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a quantity of Earthen Ware her property
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the above named Prosecutrix
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maketh Oath and Saith that she prefered the above
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Indictment against the said Defendant Yesterday at
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and that it was very late in the afternoon before she
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was Examined by the Jury there, and being informed
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that the Defendants Tryal would not come on at
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before twelve o'Clock this day on
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account of the great Number of Indictments that
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this Deponent went home she living as far off as Highgate
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and deeply Engaged in Business, But this Morning
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came to London with her witness
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before Eleven
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o'Clock for that purpose but was informed that the
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said Defendant had been acquitted of the said Indictment
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just before this Deponent and her said Witness was
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as aforesaid
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the
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23d. day of May 1765
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E Wilmot
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Resworn this
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By the Court
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