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Maketh Oath and saith That on or about the Eighteenth
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Day of April last
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to prosecute at the then next Session the above named
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presence for Stealing a Roasting pig his property and
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this Deponent was also bound to give Evidence against
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Accordingly go to the Sessions House
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on Tuesday the Twenty first day of April but that after
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making Several Inquiries
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done this Deponent being wholly unacquainted therewith
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also appeared to be and
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at last being informed of the Manner of getting the said Bill
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of Indictment prepared and preferred the same the same was according prepared & preferred before the
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Grand Jury at the said Sessions that after this Deponent
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had undergone his Examination before the said Grand Jury
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touching the said pig he enquired what was necessary to
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be done further when one of them observed that he this
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Deponent had done for the present and might then go
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home and wait until he was called upon by the prosecutor
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to give Evidence against the said Richard Macgee and added
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that as he this Deponent was only a Witness he would
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be served with a Subpona or have Sufficient Notice to
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Attend and that in the mean time he need not trouble
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himself further about the Business or used words to that
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or the like Effect whereupon he this Deponent fully
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relying upon what had been so told him by the said
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