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<p n="775">last September Sessions to prove that the Letter was sent<lb></lb>
to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-1">Robert Colliver</rs>
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stating that a Legacy was left by<lb></lb>
his Aunt (lately deceased) to him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-2">Robert Colliver</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
likewise to shew to this honorable Court that the said Robert<lb></lb>
Colliver was not sent out of the way by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-3">William Cook</rs>
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<lb></lb>
but that he was invited into the Country in consequence of the<lb></lb>
said letter to him in London to receive the Legacy as before stated<lb></lb>
And this deponent saith that the said Letter was wrote for<lb></lb>
no other purpose but that of imposing upon this honorable<lb></lb>
Court and to avoid the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-4">Robert Colliver</rs>
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giving his Evidence<lb></lb>
in the above prosecution And this deponent further saith<lb></lb>
that on the Morning following <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-5">William Akers</rs>
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came and one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-6">Thomas Petley</rs>
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whom this deponent is informed is <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15100_occ419">one of the<lb></lb>
Bail</rs>
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of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-7">William Akers</rs>
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to the said William Cooks Yard<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo622">Lambeth</rs>
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of aforesaid and there the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-8">William Akers</rs>
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with<lb></lb>
tears in his Eyes in the presence of this deponent told the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-9">William Cook</rs>
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that he was a Villian and if he did not settle the<lb></lb>
affair that he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-10">William Akers</rs>
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must certainly go to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo623">Botany Bay</rs>
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and he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-11">William Cook</rs>
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with him for that<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-12">William Cook</rs>
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was the Villian and very well knew<lb></lb>
that he had recieved the Wheat from him at different times<lb></lb>
and that he had been the occasion of the Wheat being Stolen<lb></lb>
from his Master Barge. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-13">John Nelson</rs>
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for himself saith<lb></lb>
that at the letter end of September last he this deponent at<lb></lb>
the request of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15100_occ420">Prosecutor</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-14">James Lyon</rs>
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went to the House was<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-15">Robert Colliver</rs>
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lives at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo624">Lambeth</rs>
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aforesaid and Several<lb></lb>
times since in order to have served him with a Subpoena in<lb></lb>
the above prosecution and he there saw the Wife of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n775-16">Robert Colliver</rs>
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and enquired of her where the said Robert<lb></lb>
Colliver was to be found and She reply'd that her <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15100_occ421">Husband</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was gone into the Country to see her Friends and refused to give<lb></lb>
this deponent any particular account where he was gone<lb></lb>
or where he was to be found And this deponent further saith</p>
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