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The King agt.
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maketh Oath that on or about the Eighth Day of March last
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The Lord Mayor of the
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granted two several Warrants against
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upon the Informations
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of the Right Honble The Lord Chedworth, this Deponent,
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Henry Clarke
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for divers Felonies and Forgeries
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in the said Warrants specified and saith that at that time the said Edward
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Wilson being in York Goal upon Suspicion of Forgery this Deponent procured
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a Habeas Corpus to remove him from
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and this Depont.
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at a great Expence immediately set out to
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and procured the said Wilson
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tobe removed by Virtue of such Writ accordingly and saith that as soon as the
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was removed he this Deponent applied to
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William Bell
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one of His Majesty's
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for the said County to get the
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said Lord Mayor's Warrant endorsed in order to apprehend the said Arrowsmith
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who at that time was under Bail to appear at
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upon Suspicion
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of being concerned with the said Wilson in such Felonies and Forgeries and saith
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that the said Mr. Bell did accordingly endorse the said Warrant but this being at the
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time of the Assizes for
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the said Arrowsmith, who as this Deponent
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believes, had Notice of the said Wilson's being removed to
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imediately
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and without this Deponents Knowledge or Consent and to this Deponents great
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Surprize indicted the said Wilson for another Forgery which had no Relation to
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any of the Felonies or Forgeries contained in the aforesaid Warrants or for which
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he this Deponent intended to prosecute the said Arrowsmith And saith that he
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this Deponent and his Friends looking upon such Proceeding of the said
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Arrowsmith against the said Wilson to be an extraordinary Artifice to make
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himself the King's Evidence he this Deponent at the said Assizes applied to the
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Honble Mr. Justice Wilmot and upon the Representation of this Case to him
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