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<p n="2023"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo880">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
The King agt. Thomas Erskines<lb></lb>
Oath a Prosecution for Reckerning<lb></lb>
four Transportation</p>
<p n="2024"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2024-1">Thomas Erskine</rs>
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the above Deft maketh Oath<lb></lb>
that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2024-2">Robert Thomson</rs>
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is a Material Witness for<lb></lb>
this Deponent in the above Prosecution and<lb></lb>
without whose Testimony this Deponent Court<lb></lb>
safely Proceed to Tryall and Saith that the<lb></lb>
said Robert Thompson did Attend at the last<lb></lb>
Session to give Evidence for this Deponent but<lb></lb>
Connot now be here by reason he is ill of<lb></lb>
a Feaver at Both but not able to Attend at this Deponent is Credibly<lb></lb>
Informed and Believes & Saith that he doth<lb></lb>
not make this his Affidavit to avoid Justice<lb></lb>
but merely that the Fifth of his Case<lb></lb>
may Couce before this Honourable Court<lb></lb>
and will if the said Robert Thompson recovery<lb></lb>
from his said Disoder use his atmost Ersdeavoy<lb></lb>
to have him here at the next Session</p>
<p n="2025">Sworn at the Session in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo881">Old Bailey</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45022_date203">19th.<lb></lb>
day of May 1774</rs>
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<p n="2026">By the Court</p>
<p n="2027">John Erskine</p>
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