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Mary
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in the
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maketh Oath and saith that he
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being bound by Recognizance in the sum of Twenty Pounds to prosecute one
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Michael Snowden
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for Stealing from this Dept. one Bushel of Wheat flour
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of the Value of five Shillings did on Friday in last July Sessions Preferr an
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Indictment against the said
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Michael Snowden
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for the said offence, which
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Indictment was found a true Bill, and this Dept. there upon came the same
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Friday to the
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to attend to give Evidence on the said Indictment
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but having some discourse with a person who attends at the
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as a
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Constable or same such Officer, and whose Name this Dept. upon enquiry
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hath been informed is
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William Smith
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, told this Depont. that the said
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Michael Snowden
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's Trial would not come on that day, the said Snowden not
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being brought from Newgate, and that he this Dept. might safely go home
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about his Business, and come again the next Morning by Nine O' Clock, or used
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words to that or the like Effect, this Dept. did relying on what had been
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told him by the said Smith to be true, about three O' Clock in the afternoon
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of the same Friday the Indictment was found, leave the
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, and
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go home to his Business, which he other wise should not have done, and
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sometime in the same Evening the said Snowden was tried and discharged
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for want of Prosecution as he hath been informed And this Dept. further Possitively saith that he
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fully intended to prosecute the said Snowden for the said Offence,
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and it was not out of favour, or for gain, that made him go home,
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but only as before Stated, and if this Dept. had thought the Trial of the said
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Snowden would have come on that day, he Possitively on his Oath saith
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that he should have staid and given Evidence against him, as by his
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Recognizance he was bound to do it being this Dept. Firm Rosolution to-
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in Prosecute the said Snowden for the said Offence And this Dept. further saith that should not this Honble Court order
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his Recognizance to be discharged it will be the Rain of this Deponent.
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Wm Harrison
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Sworn in Court at the
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within
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the Suburbs of the
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City of London
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the
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24th. day of October: 1766
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By the Court
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