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maketh oath that he this Deponent
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having received the annext notice from the Defendants
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attorney is this Matter, He this Deponent did on thursday
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last the twelfth day of this instant October in
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aforesaid make strict enquiry for
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Thomas Bentley the above Prosecuter and for his
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Habitation or Place of Abode in order to have served him
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with the same, when this Deponent was informed
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that the said Thomas Bentley had disposed as all
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his Goods and Effects, had left Lyme above six months
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ago and that his House hath ever since been
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and lockt up. but where the said Thomas
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Bentley
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as gone to inside, no person then
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sell, unless he was gone to London, and that he the
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said Thomas Bentley in general bore a very bad
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Character And this Deponent further saith that
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the said Thomas Bentley's House in Purfleet Sheet
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aforesaid was his last place of Abode in Lynn ten
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the knowledge and belief of this Deponent.
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eighteenth day of October in
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the year of our Lord 1775
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. Before me}
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Jas. Sa
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leson a Cow
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of sd. Court
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Jenkin Mather Leet.
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