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the Condition of his said Recognizance but in this Deponents way
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further he was taken so extremely ill with the Gravel that he was
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so ill untill the Saturday following in so much that he could not
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possibly attend to give his Evidence against the said William Beckman
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Saunderson Lawrence Dunn and George Whitrow severally say That
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who informed then that the
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abovenamed Henry Wright was very ill as aforesaid and that he the
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