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<p n="1438">Purpose of Course issues his Warrant to apprehend the Defendant to answer such Indictment<lb></lb>
and if the Accusation is capital the Accused must lye in Prison till the Sessions following<lb></lb>
whereas if tried the same Sessions the Bill was found he might have been acquitted and<lb></lb>
discharged And we are informed that in September Sessions last a Felony Bill was refused<lb></lb>
to be received because it was sent down on the Friday Morning through sent down as soon<lb></lb>
as found and although the Person accused prayed by his Counsel he might be then tried and<lb></lb>
that the Accused is since dead and had no Opportunity of Searing his Character</p>
<p n="1439"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">4.</note>
If the Person Indicted should be innocent he is unnecessarily if not unlawfully imprisoned<lb></lb>
from the Session in which such Indictment was found till the Sessions in which he is tried<lb></lb>
If guilty he is punished by Imprisonment before he is found so</p>
<p n="1440"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">5.</note>
Malicious Prosecutions may be encouraged by the Observance of this Rule, the Party is<lb></lb>
usually taken up and imprisoned before the Session, a malicious Prosecutor knowing of this<lb></lb>
Rule will not appear to find the Bill till Friday when the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2164">Old Baily</rs>
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will not receive it, so that<lb></lb>
the Party not being tried cannot be acquitted and consequently cannot have a Copy of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1662">Indictment</rs>
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to sue the Prosecutor for his Malice.</p>
<p n="1441"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">6.</note>
Honest Prosecutors may not be able to bring their Witnesses just to a day a material.<lb></lb>
Witness may be not be found or may be Sick on the Wednesday who on the Thursday Afternoon<lb></lb>
or Friday Morning may be produced or some Grand Juries may be more tedious then others in<lb></lb>
the Examination of Witnesses</p>
<p n="1442"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">7</note>
Prosecutors generally go with their Witnesses from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2165">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2166">Old Baily</rs>
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but if the<lb></lb>
Bill is not received the Felon is discharged, and though he be taken up again before next Sessions<lb></lb>
on the Certificate the Witnesses may then be dead gone beyond Sea or may not be to be found and<lb></lb>
for want of Evidence the Felon will be acquitted whereas if tried the Sessions the Bill was found<lb></lb>
might be convicted but if not tried till the next Sessions by reason the Court of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2167">Old Baily</rs>
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would<lb></lb>
not receive the Bill the Sessions it was found may be acquitted for want of Evidence.</p>
<p n="1443">We beg have further to observe</p>
<p n="1444"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">8</note>
The Grand Jury at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2168">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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by their Oaths must give their Verdict on all Bills brought to<lb></lb>
them whilst Sitting and cannot refuse to hear the Evidence because brought two late, according to<lb></lb>
this Rule at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2169">Old Baily</rs>
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, when found they must bring them into the Court at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2170">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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<lb></lb>
when brought into said Court must forthwith transmit them to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2171">old Baily</rs>
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, the Sessions<lb></lb>
cannot stop or retain the Said Bills they being for Crimes not triable there, if not received at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2172">the Old Baily</rs>
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and so unavoidably retained at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2173">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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and sent down the next Sessions it<lb></lb>
will be then two late for the Party is then<del>was</del>
and was by the Court of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2174">Old Baily</rs>
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the Sessions<lb></lb>
before discharged and may not be to be found though the Prosecutor takes never so much<lb></lb>
pains about it</p>
<p n="1445"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">9</note>
The <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1663">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2175">Middx</rs>
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is an Officer of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2176">Old Baily</rs>
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and attends thereby his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1664">Deputy</rs>
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Mr. Mathews <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1665">Clerk</rs>
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of the Arraignments on the Middx Side and has the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1666">Custody</rs>
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of the Records of that Court We would therefore submit whether it can be said<lb></lb>
there is no Indictment found and so the Prisoner be discharged when their own Officer<lb></lb>
has the same in his Custody</p>
<p n="1446"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">10</note>
As the Court at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2177">Old Baily</rs>
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has not of late years been known to strand still and wait<lb></lb>
for Bills we apprehend it will be the same to the said Court whether the Bills are<lb></lb>
transmitted to them on the Thursday or the Friday if they have other Bills at that time<lb></lb>
before them not tried and we must observe that in September Sessions last when the said<lb></lb>
Court refused on the Friday Morning to receive seven Felony Bills transmitted from</p>
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