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<p n="234">The King agt. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n234-1">Samuel Arrowsmith</rs>
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<p n="235"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n235-1">William Griffiths</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo153">Compton</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo154">Gloucester</rs>
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maketh Oath that on or about the Eighth Day of March last <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ110">The Right Honble</rs>
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The Lord Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo155">City of London</rs>
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granted two several Warrants against<lb></lb>
the abovenamed <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n235-3">Samuel Arrowsmith</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n235-4">Edward Wilson</rs>
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upon the Informations<lb></lb>
of the Right Honble The Lord Chedworth, this Deponent, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n235-6">Henry Clarke</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n235-7">James Blackburn</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n235-8">Jocelyn Farrington</rs>
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for divers Felonies and Forgeries<lb></lb>
in the said Warrants specified and saith that at that time the said Edward<lb></lb>
Wilson being in York Goal upon Suspicion of Forgery this Deponent procured<lb></lb>
a Habeas Corpus to remove him from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo156">York Goal</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo157">Gloucester</rs>
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and this Depont.<lb></lb>
at a great Expence immediately set out to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo158">York</rs>
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and procured the said Wilson<lb></lb>
tobe removed by Virtue of such Writ accordingly and saith that as soon as the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n235-9">Edward Wilson</rs>
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was removed he this Deponent applied to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n235-10">William Bell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ111">Esquire</rs>
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one of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ112">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the said County to get the<lb></lb>
said Lord Mayor's Warrant endorsed in order to apprehend the said Arrowsmith<lb></lb>
who at that time was under Bail to appear at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo159">Gloucester Assizes</rs>
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upon Suspicion<lb></lb>
of being concerned with the said Wilson in such Felonies and Forgeries and saith<lb></lb>
that the said Mr. Bell did accordingly endorse the said Warrant but this being at the<lb></lb>
time of the Assizes for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo160">Gloucester</rs>
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the said Arrowsmith, who as this Deponent<lb></lb>
believes, had Notice of the said Wilson's being removed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo161">Gloucester Goal</rs>
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imediately<lb></lb>
and without this Deponents Knowledge or Consent and to this Deponents great<lb></lb>
Surprize indicted the said Wilson for another Forgery which had no Relation to<lb></lb>
any of the Felonies or Forgeries contained in the aforesaid Warrants or for which<lb></lb>
he this Deponent intended to prosecute the said Arrowsmith And saith that he<lb></lb>
this Deponent and his Friends looking upon such Proceeding of the said<lb></lb>
Arrowsmith against the said Wilson to be an extraordinary Artifice to make<lb></lb>
himself the King's Evidence he this Deponent at the said Assizes applied to the<lb></lb>
Honble Mr. Justice Wilmot and upon the Representation of this Case to him<lb></lb>
he</p>
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