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<p n="369"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo337">Old Bailey</rs>
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Sessions</p>
<p n="370">The King<lb></lb>
against<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n370-1">William Brooks</rs>
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for Felony</p>
<p n="371"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo338">London</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-1">William Gough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo339">Holborn Hill London</rs>
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Live Poulterer,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-2">Jonathan Wilkins</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo340">Plumb Tree Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo341">Shoe Lane</rs>
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, London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ151">Constable</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-3">John Fairweather</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo342">White Lion Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo343">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, Mariner, severally make Oath and say,<lb></lb>
And First the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-4">William Gough</rs>
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for himself saith, that<lb></lb>
on the Eleventh Day of June last past he was bound by<lb></lb>
Recognizance, before <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-5">Henry Kitchin</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ152">Esquire</rs>
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, one of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo344">City of London</rs>
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, to<lb></lb>
appear and give Evidence at the General Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery of Newgate,<lb></lb>
now holding for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo345">City of London</rs>
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, against the above<lb></lb>
named <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-6">William Brook</rs>
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for Feloniously stealing a linen handkerchief<lb></lb>
of the Value of Six Pences the property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-7">John Fairweather</rs>
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<lb></lb>
And this Deponent Further saith, that pursuant to such<lb></lb>
Recognizance, he Yesterday Morning the Fourth Day of July<lb></lb>
Instant, came from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo346">Warfield</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo347">Berkshire</rs>
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, and attended the<lb></lb>
Grand Jury at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo348">Old Bailey</rs>
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, who found true Bill against the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-8">William Brooks</rs>
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for the Felony aforesaid, and the same<lb></lb>
was brought into Court Yesterday Afternoon And this<lb></lb>
Deponent further saith, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-9">William Brooks</rs>
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, was<lb></lb>
to his great Surprise shortly afterwards called upon his Trial<lb></lb>
and discharged for want of Evidence, although this Deponent<lb></lb>
had been waiting, and was anxiously desireous of giving<lb></lb>
Evidence against him, but being informed by a Person<lb></lb>
belonging to this Court, that the Bill being so lately found,<lb></lb>
it was very improbable the Trial would come on in two<lb></lb>
or three hours at least, he went to his House on Holborn<lb></lb>
Hill to Dinner, intending to return to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo349">Old Bailey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
immediately afterwards And this Deponent further saith,<lb></lb>
that he accordingly did return to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo350">Old Bailey</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
then Found, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-10">William Brooks</rs>
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had been<lb></lb>
discharged for want of Evidence against him And this<lb></lb>
Deponent further saith that he did not absent himself<lb></lb>
when the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n371-11">William Brooks</rs>
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was called to his Trial<lb></lb>
out of any Favour, Affection or Hope of Reward, but</p>
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