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, Maketh
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Felony, and which said Indictment was found about Twelve a Clock at Noon, on the Day of
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such attendance, and this Deponent was then Informed by one of the Door keepers of the said
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Grand Jury that no Business would be Done nor Prisoner Tryed on the said Indictment
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untill four a Clock in the afternoon of the same Day, and that this Deponent might safely
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Go Home, which he accordingly did, Relying on what the said Door keeper had Told him,
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the same Day According to the said Door keepers order, when to his great Surprize, he was
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And Lastly this Deponent saith That he absolutely Intended to have
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at the said October Sessions for the said Felony, and
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That the Neglect of so Doing was not Wilfull, but Merely Casual, as this
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