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<p n="2281"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1298">Middlesex</rs>
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{ The King<lb></lb>
against<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2281-2">John Ware</rs>
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for Felony</p>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1299">Dover Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1301">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ449">Labourer</rs>
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Maketh Oath and Saith that he this Deponent<lb></lb>
on or about the Twenty Seventh day of September One Thousand Seven<lb></lb>
Hundred and Seventy Four was bound by Recognizance in the Penal<lb></lb>
Sum of Forty Pounds before <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2282-2">William Addington</rs>
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Esquire one of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ450">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1302">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Upon Condition<lb></lb>
that he this Deponent should prosecute the Law with effect and give<lb></lb>
Evidence in his Majesty's behalf against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2282-3">John Ware</rs>
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for Feloniously<lb></lb>
Stealing Four Shillings and Six pence in Money the property of this<lb></lb>
Deponent And this Deponent Saith that he Understood he was to go to<lb></lb>
the New <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1303">Guildhall</rs>
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and there prosecute the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2282-4">John Ware</rs>
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<lb></lb>
And that he this Deponent did attend at the said New <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1305">Guildhall</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1306">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the first day of the next Session after he entered into the above Recognizance<lb></lb>
as aforesaid and continued to Attend there from Day to Day until the said<lb></lb>
Session was over And this Deponent Saith he did not know that he was<lb></lb>
to prefer a Bill of Indictment against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2282-5">John Ware</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
Offence but that he this Deponent being entirely ignorant of matters of this<lb></lb>
kind understood and imagined that the said prisoner would be brought up<lb></lb>
and that he this Deponent should have been called upon to give his<lb></lb>
Evidence against him And for which purpose this Deponent regularly<lb></lb>
Attended at the said Sessions as aforesaid And this Deponent Saith that he<lb></lb>
has since been informed that his said Recognizance is forfieted the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2282-6">John Ware</rs>
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having been Discharged by this Honourable Court for want of<lb></lb>
this Deponents prosecuting him according to the Condition of his said<lb></lb>
Recognizance And Lastly this Deponent Saith that he did not Neglect to<lb></lb>
Attend and prosecute and give Evidence against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2282-7">John Ware</rs>
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through<lb></lb>
any favour or Affection for him or for any Reward or the hope or promise<lb></lb>
thereof but that it was entirely occasioned by the means aforesaid and<lb></lb>
through no other reason or motive whatsoever therefore this Deponent<lb></lb>
humbly prays that this Honourable Court will be pleased to Order his said<lb></lb>
Recognizance to be Discharged.</p>
<p n="2283">Sworn in Court at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1307">Justice Hall</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Old Bailey the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45023_date149">9th. day of Octr. 1775</rs>
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<p n="2284">By the Court</p>
<p n="2285">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2285-1">John Wheatley</rs>
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