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The King against <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n450-1">Eleanor Moore</rs>
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(on the Prosecution of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n450-2">Benjamin Nicholson</rs>
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for Felony<lb></lb>
in Stealing a Silver Tea spoon of the Value of Ten pence</p>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15072_geo297">Bishopsgate Street</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15072_occ221">Victualler</rs>
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, Maketh<lb></lb>
oath and saith That he this Deponent in October Sessions last attend the Grand Jury for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15072_geo298">City of London</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15072_geo299">old Bailey</rs>
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, and Indicted the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n451-2">Eleanor Moore</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
Felony, and which said Indictment was found about Twelve a Clock at Noon, on the Day of<lb></lb>
such attendance, and this Deponent was then Informed by one of the Door keepers of the said<lb></lb>
Grand Jury that no Business would be Done nor Prisoner Tryed on the said Indictment<lb></lb>
untill four a Clock in the afternoon of the same Day, and that this Deponent might safely<lb></lb>
Go Home, which he accordingly did, Relying on what the said Door keeper had Told him,<lb></lb>
and this Deponent on his Return to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15072_geo300">old Bailey</rs>
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about four a Clock in the afternoon of<lb></lb>
the same Day According to the said Door keepers order, when to his great Surprize, he was<lb></lb>
informed that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n451-3">Eleanor Moore</rs>
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was Discharged by Proclamation for want of<lb></lb>
this Deponents appearing to Prosecute her,</p>
<p n="452">And Lastly this Deponent saith That he absolutely Intended to have<lb></lb>
prosecuted the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n452-1">Eleanor Moor</rs>
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at the said October Sessions for the said Felony, and<lb></lb>
That the Neglect of so Doing was not Wilfull, but Merely Casual, as this<lb></lb>
Deponent wholly Relyed on the advice that had been Given him, by the said<lb></lb>
Door keeper of the said Grand Jury.</p>
<p n="453">Sworn at the sessions House, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15072_geo301">Old Bailey</rs>
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London, the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15072_date103">23d. Day of October 1761</rs>
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<p n="454">By the Court</p>
<p n="455"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n455-1">Benj. Michelson</rs>
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