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maketh oath and saith that he this Deponent did on Wednesday the
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fourteenth and on Thursday the fifteenth of December Instant attend
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from about
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Ten of the Clock in the Morning untill about five o Clock in the afternoon
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on each of the said Days for the Purpose of giving Evidence against
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on an Indictment for stealing Pewter Potts and this
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Deponent further saith that about five o Clock in the afternoon of the
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said fifteenth of December he this Deponent went to the Indictment
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aforesaid for the purpose of getting
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Refreshment not expecting the Trial of the said
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called on that Evening And this Deponent further saith that at the time
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he so left the said Sessions Hall as aforesaid he left one
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to call this Deponent in case the said Indictment was called on And that
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about six o Clock in the same Evening the said
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came to this
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Deponents House and informed him he had staid at the Sessions house
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till he was tired and there being no Prospect of the Indictment coming on
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and therefore he was going home or words to that Effect End this Deponent
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further saith that about Seven o Clock in the same Evening one Edwards
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Treadway called on this Deponent and informed him the said Isabella
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Lyster had been called upon her Trial and for want of Evidence she
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was acquitted or words to that or the like Effect And this Deponent
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positively saith that he is very Sorry he did not attend to give his Evidence
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against the said
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as it was his wish so to do And that he
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