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the above named Defendant maketh oath that Yesterday in the
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Forenoon he was removed by Habeas Corpus from the Street where he had been a
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for debt to convives two Indictments preferred and found the preceeding day
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against him for Forgery. And this Deponent saith that at the time when the Values
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until he was assigned on the said Indictments he did not know of had been informed
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him therefore this Deponent saith he is totally unproposed to make a defence to both are
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to this Deponent and a Material Witness for him on the trials of both the said
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Indictments and without whose evidence this Deponent cannot with any degree of safety
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to his life take his tryal is now and here been for some time as this Deponent hath
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in the County of Hants so that until be
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Sworn at Justice Hall in the
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this 10th. day of May
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1769.}
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By the Court
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