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<p n="17"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">At the Sessions</note>
<lb></lb>
The KIng<lb></lb>
against<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15069_n17-1">Mary Bates</rs>
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Alias <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15069_n17-41">Clarke</rs>
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<p n="18"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15069_n18-1">William Garnons</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15069_geo13">Stratton Ground</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15069_geo14">Saint<lb></lb>
Margaret Westminster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15069_occ15">Carpenter</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15069_n18-23">Julius Caesar Smith</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15069_geo15">Saint Martins in the Fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15069_geo16">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15069_occ16">Cordwainer</rs>
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Jointly & severally make Oath & say, and first these<lb></lb>
Deponents say, that on the thirty first Day of December last, <lb></lb>
they these Deponents and one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15069_n18-2">Henry Hancock</rs>
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were in Company with<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15069_n18-3">Samuel Ferguson</rs>
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the Informer in this prosecution (as the said<lb></lb>
Ferguson told these Deponents which they verily believe to be true) at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15069_geo17">sign of the<lb></lb>
Five Bells</rs>
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a publick House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15069_geo18">Chancery Lane</rs>
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, when the said<lb></lb>
Ferguson the Informer did declare and say; that he the said<lb></lb>
Ferguson, had wrote several Letters to the said Defendant, before<lb></lb>
she was taken into Custody, the Contents of which were; that<lb></lb>
If she would make him same Restitution, he would not take her<lb></lb>
up, but otherwise he would; upon which the Deponent William<lb></lb>
Garnons asked him, What he would have with the poor woman,<lb></lb>
and the said Ferguson make answer and said; If she had given me<lb></lb>
twenty Guineas, I would not have taken her up, but note, I will<lb></lb>
have forty Guineas, to which the Deponent Garnons replyed<lb></lb>
you are bound in a Recognizance of Forty Pounds to Prosecute<lb></lb>
what will you do about that, to which the said Ferguson<lb></lb>
Answered, I will have ten Guineas in Hand and Charles<lb></lb>
Clarke's Note of Hand for the other thirty Guineas and<lb></lb>
upon the Receipt of the ten Guineas and the Note of Hand<lb></lb>
I will Immediately disappear and lease the Kingdom or to<lb></lb>
that Effect and there Deponents further say that the said Mrs.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15069_n18-5">Charles Clarke</rs>
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is a Clock or <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15069_occ17">Head Servant</rs>
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of the said Defendant<lb></lb>
as these Deponents have been informed and verily believe and<lb></lb>
this Deponent <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15069_n18-6">Julius Caesar Smith</rs>
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for himself saith that the<lb></lb>
said Ferguson hath several Times admitted to this<lb></lb>
Deponent that he had Entered into a Recognizance<lb></lb>
before <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15069_n18-8">George Wright</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15069_occ18">Esquire</rs>
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one of his Majesties<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15069_occ19">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the City and Liberty of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15069_geo19">Westminster</rs>
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in Forty Pounds to prosecute the said<lb></lb>
Defendant <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15069_n18-9">Mary Clarke</rs>
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and lastly these<lb></lb>
Deponents say that they verily believe, this</p>
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