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<p n="689"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Gaol Delivery<lb></lb>
for London}</note>
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The King<lb></lb>
agt<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n689-1">Robert Bell</rs>
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On an Indictment for Felony<lb></lb>
and Forgery</p>
<p n="690"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n690-1">Robert Bell</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ224">Prisoner</rs>
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in the Custody of the Sheriffs of London<lb></lb>
maketh Oath and saith that on the Twenty second day of March last<lb></lb>
he this Deponent was committed to the prison of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo656">the Poultry</rs>
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compter<lb></lb>
for forging a Bill of Exchange purporting to have been drawn by one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n690-2">James Bartholomew</rs>
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and that an Indictment hath been preferred<lb></lb>
against this Deponent touching the said Forgery at the present Session<lb></lb>
And this Deponent saith for some time past he was a Seaman on<lb></lb>
Board a certain Ship or Vessel called the Ponsylvania Packet of<lb></lb>
which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n690-3">James Bartholomew</rs>
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was Master and that he this Deponent<lb></lb>
on or about the Ninth Day of November last was obliged on Account of<lb></lb>
Sickness to Leave the said Ship or Vessel of which the said James<lb></lb>
Bartholomew was then Master at the Island of Saint Christopher<lb></lb>
in the West Indies and come to England since which the said James<lb></lb>
Bartholomew hath not returned to England And this Deponent<lb></lb>
saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n690-6">James Bartholomew</rs>
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is a material Witness for this<lb></lb>
Deponent on the Trial of the said Indictment And that without the<lb></lb>
Benefit of the Testimony of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n690-7">James Bartholomew</rs>
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on the said<lb></lb>
Trial this Deponent cannot with safety take his Trial on the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ225">Indictment</rs>
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And this Deponent saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n690-8">James Bartholomew</rs>
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if living is now as this Deponent hath been informed and verily believes<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo657">Barbadoes</rs>
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or at <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n690-9">Saint Lucia</rs>
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in the West Indies and is expected to<lb></lb>
Return to this Kingdom in the First Fleet of the Windward Island <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ226">Ships</rs>
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<lb></lb>
or Vessels in or about the Months of June or July next And this Defendence<lb></lb>
saith that he will use his utmost Endeavours on the Return of the said</p>
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