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The King
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On Several Indictments for Forgery
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William Thornhill
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maketh Oath that one
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George
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a Half pay Lieutenant is a Material and necessary Witness
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on the Behalf of this Defendant on the several Indictments found
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against this Defendant and without the Benefit of whose Testimony
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this Defendant cannot safely proceed to the Tryal of the said Indictments
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or either of them And This Deponent saith that previous to the last
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Sessions he was informed and which he verily believes to be true
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that the said
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then was and for some Time then last past
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had been in or near the
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but in what particular
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Part this Deponent had not then been able to discover although he
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had caused several Inquiries to be made at the Places where it
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was most likely to hear and be informed of the said
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for which Reasons an Order was made at the last Sessions to put off
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this Deponents Tryal till the present Sessions in Order to give
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this Deponent an Oportunity of finding out his said Witness
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And this Deponent saith that ever since the last Sessions he
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hath continued to make and caused to be made Inquiries after
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of the several Persons and at all the Places being Many in Number
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from whom and where it was most likely to hear and be informed
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of the said
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And this Deponent saith that he hath
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to be advertized for twice in the
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London and Saint James's Chronicles and White hall Evening Post
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and thrice in the Daily Advertizer but hath not yet been able to find
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out where the said
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is, And therefore this Deponent
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now thinks that the said
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is gone to Ireland he being
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an Irishman and having Friends in that County and this Deponent
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hath lately been informed and verily believes that there is but One
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