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for Felony</p>
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of Clothworkers Almshouse Frog Lane <lb></lb>
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Widow Maketh Oath and Saith that on or about the<lb></lb>
Second day of August last this Deponent was bound over by a<lb></lb>
Recognizance in the penal Sum of Forty pounds before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n3557-3">John<lb></lb>
Fielding</rs>
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Upon Condition that she this<lb></lb>
Deponent should prefer a Bill of Indictment at Hicks Hall in<lb></lb>
Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo1485">John Street</rs>
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in the said County and prosecute and give<lb></lb>
Evidence thereon at the last Session of Gaol Delivery of Newgate<lb></lb>
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for Feloniously<lb></lb>
Assaulting this Deponent on the Kings Highway putting her in<lb></lb>
par and Feloniously taking from her person and Apron her<lb></lb>
property And this Deponent Saith that on or about the Twentieth<lb></lb>
day of the same Month of August she was taken very Ill of<lb></lb>
a Fever and being a very poor Woman and having nobody to look<lb></lb>
after her she removed to one Mr. White's House near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo1486">Kingsland<lb></lb>
Road</rs>
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where she continued very ill as aforesaid till on or about the<lb></lb>
Tenth day of September following when she was Obliged to be again<lb></lb>
removed to her own House and there Continued Ill and kept her Bed<lb></lb>
Three Days And this Deponent Saith that she was so ill during all<lb></lb>
the time aforesaid that she could not possibly Attend to prefer a <lb></lb>
Bill of Indictment and prosecute the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n3557-6">William Wheatley</rs>
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without greatly endangering her Life And this Deponent Saith<lb></lb>
that she is very Poor and inform that she Subsists upon Charites<lb></lb>
and is now in the Seventieth Year of her Age And that the has been<lb></lb>
informed that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n3557-8">William Wheatley</rs>
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were<lb></lb>
Discharged for want of Prosecution and that her Recognizance will<lb></lb>
be Estreated unless prevented by this Honourable Court And Lastly this<lb></lb>
Deponent Saith that she did not Neglect to Attend and Prosecute through<lb></lb>
any favour or Affection to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n3557-10">William Wheatley</rs>
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or either of them or for any Reward or the hope or promise thereof.</p>
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The Mark of<lb></lb>
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