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On an Indictment for Felony
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and Forgery
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in the Custody of the Sheriffs of London
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maketh Oath and saith that on the Twenty second day of March last
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he this Deponent was committed to the prison of
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the Poultry
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compter
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for forging a Bill of Exchange purporting to have been drawn by one
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and that an Indictment hath been preferred
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against this Deponent touching the said Forgery at the present Session
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And this Deponent saith for some time past he was a Seaman on
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Board a certain Ship or Vessel called the Ponsylvania Packet of
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James Bartholomew
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was Master and that he this Deponent
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on or about the Ninth Day of November last was obliged on Account of
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Sickness to Leave the said Ship or Vessel of which the said James
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Bartholomew was then Master at the Island of Saint Christopher
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in the West Indies and come to England since which the said James
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Bartholomew hath not returned to England And this Deponent
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is a material Witness for this
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Deponent on the Trial of the said Indictment And that without the
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Benefit of the Testimony of the said
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on the said
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Trial this Deponent cannot with safety take his Trial on the
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if living is now as this Deponent hath been informed and verily believes
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Saint Lucia
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in the West Indies and is expected to
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Return to this Kingdom in the First Fleet of the Windward Island
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or Vessels in or about the Months of June or July next And this Defendence
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saith that he will use his utmost Endeavours on the Return of the said
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