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That Deft Fancourt is Indicted for Forgery in London
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and has absconded from Justice two or three Sessions and
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is now a prisoner in
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as this Dept is informed
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and therefore this Dept has been obliged to Sue out his
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Maties Writ of Heas Corpus Directed to ye Warden of ye
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Fleet, to bring the Deft into Court to plead to ye Sd
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Indictme, which Writ of Heas Corpus
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to the Clerk of ye papers in
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who says he
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, to whom this Dept
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has Applied himself desiring the Said Fancourt might
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Answer that he can't find the Sd Deft Fancourt but
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believes he had wokd himself up in his own house
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