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<p n="279"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Session of Gaol Delivery<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo254">Newgate</rs>
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for London}</note>
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The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n279-1">John Coogan</rs>
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For Felony and Forgery.</p>
<p n="280"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-1">William Chetham</rs>
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of Falcon Square <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo255">London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ99">Gentleman</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ100">Solicitor</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
prosecution in this Cause maketh Oath and saith that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-2">John Coogan</rs>
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was on<lb></lb>
the Fourteenth day of February last committed to the Gaol of Newgate for<lb></lb>
feloniously making forging and counterfeiting and uttering and publishing<lb></lb>
as true a certain Instrument purporting to be the last Will and Testament <lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-3">James Gibson</rs>
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late a Seaman on board the Private Ship of War called<lb></lb>
The Vigilant with intent to defraud Evelyn Pierrepont Benjamin<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo256">Waddington</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-5">William Waddington</rs>
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Owners of the said Ship As appears to<lb></lb>
this Deponent by a Copy of the Commitment of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-6">John Coogan</rs>
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And this<lb></lb>
Deponent further saith that Previous to the said John Coogans Commitment<lb></lb>
for the Crime aforesaid Probate of a Will and Testament purporting to be the<lb></lb>
last Will and Testament of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-7">James Gibson</rs>
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had been granted by<lb></lb>
the prerogative Court of the Archbishop of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo257">Canterbury</rs>
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to the said John<lb></lb>
Coogan by the name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-8">James Coogan</rs>
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as appeared to this Deponent<lb></lb>
by the Probate of Such Will and Testament And this Deponent<lb></lb>
further saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-9">William Waddington</rs>
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one of the Prosecutors<lb></lb>
against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-10">John Coogan</rs>
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having been advised that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-11">John Coogan</rs>
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could not be property tried for the said Crime until the said<lb></lb>
Probate had been called in and revoked by the said Prerogative Court<lb></lb>
did on behalf of himself the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-12">William Waddington</rs>
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and the said<lb></lb>
other prosecutors after the Commitment of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-13">John Coogan</rs>
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employ Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-14">James Townley</rs>
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a proctor in Doctors Connons to commence and carry on the <lb></lb>
necessary proceedings in the said Court for the purpose of having the said probate<lb></lb>
called in and in Consequence thereof the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-15">John Coogan</rs>
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was at the Session<lb></lb>
of Gaol Delivery of Newgate holden for the said City in the Month of February <lb></lb>
last ordered by the Court to remain in Custody until this present Session And this<lb></lb>
Deponent saith that he hath been informed by the said Mr. Townley (which<lb></lb>
Information this Deponent beleives to be true) that since the said Session in<lb></lb>
February last a Citation duly issued by the said Prerogative Court for the Purpose<lb></lb>
of having the said Probate called in and revoked hath been served on the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n280-17">John Coogan</rs>
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but that no further proceedings could be had thereon<lb></lb>
until the next Easter Term And lastly this Deponent saith that he hath<lb></lb>
also been informed by the said Mr. Townley and which Information this</p>
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