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And this Deponent further saith that the Prisoner having some
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that his the said Deceased's Father was a
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Labouring Man living at the same place and that he the
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was a first Cousin of the deceased by the Mothers
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SideThis Deponent soon after the Receipt of the said
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Lastmentioned Letter from Binsteed and Greetham wrote a
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Letter to
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Crown Solicitor at
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Dublin with instructions to cause an immediate inquiry
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to be made into the truth of the Facts so alledged by the
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and also to insert Advertisements in the Dublin
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Papers for discovery of the deceased's next of Kin And this
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Deponent saith that the Solicitor of
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hath since received a Letter from Thomas
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Kemmes Esquire the present Crown Solicitor of
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the twenty third of March last in
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the Words and Figures or to the purport and effect following
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that is to say "Sir Mr. Morrison late Crown Solicitor
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"having some time since resigned and I having been
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"appointed your letter did not come to my hands till
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"Thursday last I immediately wrote to the Queens County
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"to have the inquiry made which you directed and can't
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"find that there is any such Town or Village or even a Town
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"Land of the name of Strawberry in that County I am
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"perfectly acquainted with that County and with almost every
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"Man of any Consideration or Property therein and I never
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"heard of any Place there called Strawberry the Towns in that
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"County are Maryborough Mr.
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mellich Palarlington Shadbally
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"Mr
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Rath Ballinahill
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Baress in Ossay &
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"Rossnallis if the Prisoner you mention would tell on whose
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"Estate the deceased lived I will get the Information you
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"desire provided he was of that CountyI have caused
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"the Advertisement you
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sent me to be inserted in the
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"Newspapers here if any person applys you shall be
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"informed" And this Deponent further saith that on the
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seventh day of this instant April he wrote and sent a Letter
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to the said Mr. Kemmes in Answer to the Letter abovestated
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suggesting this Deponents suspicions that the place called
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"Stradbally' in the said Mr. Kemmes Letter was the place
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intended by the Prisoner although from the manner of the
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Prisoners pronouncing the word this Deponent might have
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understood it to have been spelt "Strawberry" and therefore
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desiring the said Mr. Kemmes to make the necessary
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inquiry conformable to the instructions contained in this
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Deponents first mentioned Letter unless he had already
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discovered the next of Kin by means of Advertising
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And this Deponent saith he hath reason to
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and does expect to receive some intelligence from the
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said Mr. Kemmes relative to the next of Kin of the
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