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