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<p n="2006"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n2006-1">William Harrison</rs>
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of Cavendish Street in the Parish of Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo716">Mary<lb></lb>
le bone</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo717">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45010_occ280">Baker</rs>
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maketh Oath and saith that he<lb></lb>
being bound by Recognizance in the sum of Twenty Pounds to prosecute one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n2006-2">Michael Snowden</rs>
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for Stealing from this Dept. one Bushel of Wheat flour<lb></lb>
of the Value of five Shillings did on Friday in last July Sessions Preferr an<lb></lb>
Indictment against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n2006-3">Michael Snowden</rs>
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for the said offence, which<lb></lb>
Indictment was found a true Bill, and this Dept. there upon came the same<lb></lb>
Friday to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo718">Old Bailey</rs>
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to attend to give Evidence on the said Indictment<lb></lb>
but having some discourse with a person who attends at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo719">Old Bailey</rs>
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as a<lb></lb>
Constable or same such Officer, and whose Name this Dept. upon enquiry<lb></lb>
hath been informed is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n2006-4">William Smith</rs>
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, told this Depont. that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n2006-5">Michael Snowden</rs>
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's Trial would not come on that day, the said Snowden not<lb></lb>
being brought from Newgate, and that he this Dept. might safely go home<lb></lb>
about his Business, and come again the next Morning by Nine O' Clock, or used<lb></lb>
words to that or the like Effect, this Dept. did relying on what had been<lb></lb>
told him by the said Smith to be true, about three O' Clock in the afternoon<lb></lb>
of the same Friday the Indictment was found, leave the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo720">Old Bailey</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
go home to his Business, which he other wise should not have done, and<lb></lb>
sometime in the same Evening the said Snowden was tried and discharged<lb></lb>
for want of Prosecution as he hath been informed And this Dept. further Possitively saith that he<lb></lb>
fully intended to prosecute the said Snowden for the said Offence,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
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and it was not out of favour, or for gain, that made him go home,<lb></lb>
but only as before Stated, and if this Dept. had thought the Trial of the said<lb></lb>
Snowden would have come on that day, he Possitively on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
that he should have staid and given Evidence against him, as by his<lb></lb>
Recognizance he was bound to do it being this Dept. Firm Rosolution to-<lb></lb>
in Prosecute the said Snowden for the said Offence And this Dept. further saith that should not this Honble Court order<lb></lb>
his Recognizance to be discharged it will be the Rain of this Deponent.</p>
<p n="2007"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n2007-1">Wm Harrison</rs>
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<p n="2008">Sworn in Court at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo721">Old Bailey</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
the Suburbs of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo722">City of London</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45010_date73">24th. day of October: 1766</rs>
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<p n="2009">By the Court</p>
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