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<p n="320"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Session of Oyer and<lb></lb>
Terminer in London}</note>
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The King<lb></lb>
against<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n320-1">Bowman Brown</rs>
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Indicted in London upon Six<lb></lb>
Several Indictments for<lb></lb>
Compounding Offences in the<lb></lb>
Coal Trade against the Form<lb></lb>
of the Statute.</p>
<p n="321">Bowman Brown the Defendant in this Cause and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n321-9">Thomas<lb></lb>
Warren</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15077_geo219">Inner Temple</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15077_geo220">London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15077_occ209">Gentleman</rs>
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jointly and<lb></lb>
Severally make Oath and say And first the said Bowman<lb></lb>
Brown for himself saith that he hath as Plainliff been<lb></lb>
concerned in many Que I am Actions against Sundry People<lb></lb>
Dealers in Coals for divers male practices in the Coal Trade<lb></lb>
several of whom have by Leave of the Court compounded the same<lb></lb>
but they thought much of the high Charges the Attornies mad<lb></lb>
for obtaining the Rules for that Purpose Therefore on the Third do<lb></lb>
of March One thousand seven hundred and Sixty Six he this<lb></lb>
Deponent look an opinion to know if such Mathew before Action<lb></lb>
brought could not be agreed without applying to the Court for Leave<lb></lb>
and thereby was informed they might which said Opinion is as<lb></lb>
followeth to wit Case Whither A can make it up with<lb></lb>
B. upon a penal statute as no Action is brought against B.<lb></lb>
Whither A can be safe in so doingI am of opinion A.<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
on what Terms he pleases agree to bring no Action against B.<lb></lb>
as none is already brought, but I Conceive such Agreement will<lb></lb>
not hinder any other person afterwards from bringing an Action<lb></lb>
for the same OffenceThos. Warren 3d. March 1766 <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15077_geo221">Inner Temple</rs>
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This Deponent further Saith that afterwards and not before it was<lb></lb>
that the Prosecutors of the Six Several Indictment above mentioned<lb></lb>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n321-2">John Booth</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n321-3">Thomas Burton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n321-4">Joseph Harrison</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n321-5">Stephen midwood</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n321-6">Thomas Kendall</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n321-7">Thomas Chapman</rs>
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Severally made Applications<lb></lb>
to this Deponent to make an Agreement with them no to bring action<lb></lb>
against them for Offence they had been defected in as by the <lb></lb>
Indictments themselves will more fully appear and to which he<lb></lb>
this Deponent begs Leave to refer This Deponent further Saith that it<lb></lb>
was in pursuance of the said Opinion that he agreed the said Matters<lb></lb>
with there firmly believing that from the said Opinion he had a<lb></lb>
Right so to do and doth on his Oath say that he so consider in the<lb></lb>
said Opinion that at the Time of making the said Agreements he did<lb></lb>
not apprehend he was in any manner offending or Committing any<lb></lb>
Offence whatsoever against the Laws or against the said Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n321-8">Thomas Warden</rs>
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for himself saith that they</p>
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