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<p n="1008"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">In the Kings Bench.</note>
The King on the prosecution of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1008-1">Thos. Bentley</rs>
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against<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1008-2">Thomas Austin</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1008-3">Joseph Davenport</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1009"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1009-1">Jenkin Mather Leet</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo527">Kings Lynn</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo528">County of<lb></lb>
Norfolk</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15086_occ241">Gentleman</rs>
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maketh oath that he this Deponent<lb></lb>
having received the annext notice from the Defendants<lb></lb>
attorney is this Matter, He this Deponent did on thursday<lb></lb>
last the twelfth day of this instant October in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo529">Purfleet<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo530">Kings Lynn</rs>
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aforesaid make strict enquiry for<lb></lb>
Thomas Bentley the above Prosecuter and for his<lb></lb>
Habitation or Place of Abode in order to have served him<lb></lb>
with the same, when this Deponent was informed<lb></lb>
that the said Thomas Bentley had disposed as all<lb></lb>
his Goods and Effects, had left Lyme above six months<lb></lb>
ago and that his House hath ever since been<lb></lb>
a<obscured></obscured>
and lockt up. but where the said Thomas<lb></lb>
Bentley<obscured></obscured>
as gone to inside, no person then<lb></lb>
sell, unless he was gone to London, and that he the<lb></lb>
said Thomas Bentley in general bore a very bad<lb></lb>
Character And this Deponent further saith that<lb></lb>
the said Thomas Bentley's House in Purfleet Sheet<lb></lb>
aforesaid was his last place of Abode in Lynn ten<lb></lb>
the knowledge and belief of this Deponent.</p>
<p n="1010">Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo531">Kings Lynn</rs>
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above said<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15086_date272">eighteenth day of October in<lb></lb>
the year of our Lord 1775</rs>
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. Before me}<lb></lb>
Jas. Sa<obscured></obscured>
leson a Cow <obscured></obscured>
of sd. Court</p>
<p n="1011">Jenkin Mather Leet.</p>
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