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<p n="4">Deponents Tryal And saith that about seven of the clock in the afternoon of Yesterday<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15080_n4-1">Robert Donaldson</rs>
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returned to this Deponent and acquainted him that he had made Street<lb></lb>
search and enquiry for the said John Lives and could not get my information where he was or<lb></lb>
might be met with. And this Deponent lastly saith the said John Lives lived as Clerk with<lb></lb>
and Assistant to this Deponent and his Partner Grindall for some time before and at the time<lb></lb>
of the negotiation of the bill of exchange in question and on which this Deponent is indicted and<lb></lb>
is well a committed with the whole transactions respecting this Bill therefore this Deponent<lb></lb>
saith that the said John Lives is his principal Witness and without whose testimony this<lb></lb>
Deponent cannot without great danger to his life take his tryal on the said Indicitment<lb></lb>
And this Deponent Roberts Donaldson for himself saith that in consequence of the other<lb></lb>
Deponents Directions he was several home yesterday searching for and inquiring after<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15080_n4-3">John Lives</rs>
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late <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15080_occ2">Clerk</rs>
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to the other Deponent and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15080_n4-4">William Grindall</rs>
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with intent to follow<lb></lb>
him and bring him to Town to give evidence on the other Defendants tryal this day but<lb></lb>
notewithstanding he made diligent search and inquiry for the said John Lives not only at<lb></lb>
places which this Deponent knowns he usually frequents but at several Livery Stables<lb></lb>
to know if he had hired any horse or Carriages to go out of Town yet this Deponent was<lb></lb>
not able to get any information or intelligence of or respecting him. And this Deponent<lb></lb>
further saith that Yesterday between the hours of eight and nine in the evening he<lb></lb>
served the above named Prosecutor with a notice in writing purporting that the above<lb></lb>
named Defendant intended to move the Court at twelve o'clock this day or so soon after<lb></lb>
as Connect could be heard to put off his tryal till next Sessions by determining to and<lb></lb>
leaving with the Landlady of the said Prosecutor at his Lodgings at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15080_geo5">Castle Inn</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15080_geo6">Wood street</rs>
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the notice aforesaid And that he this Deponent also between the same<lb></lb>
hours served a like notice on Mr. Sall the Prosecutors Sollicitor.</p>
<p n="5">Both Sworn at Justice Hall in<lb></lb>
the Old Bailey the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15080_date3">16th. day of<lb></lb>
January 1769</rs>
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Before}</p>
<p n="6">R Alexander</p>
<p n="7"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15080_n7-1">Robt: Donaldson</rs>
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<p n="8">By the Court</p>
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