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December 1791
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By Adjournment same day.
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Resolved that the Escape of John Oxon otherwise Oxley out of the
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be enquired into, and it being stated that Mr.
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Harwood the Governor was ill and not able to attend the Court.
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John Woodward
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the Turnkey attended who being Examined said that
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Mr Harwood was very ill and unable to come out; That Oxley was Committed by the
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name of Oxon by
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Sampson Wright
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by virtue of a Commitment which was Read in
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the following Words Vizt.
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Middlesex
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to wit: To The Governor of the House of Correction at
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or
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his Deputy.
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Receive into your Custody the Body of John Oxon herewith sent you brought,
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before me
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. One of His Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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in and
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for the said County by
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Thomas Ting
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and Charged before me the said Justice upon the
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Oaths of
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John Sirel
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and others, on suspicion of having Feloniously
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Robbed the
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Mails agt. the Statute Etc Him
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safely keep in your said County for further Examination or untill He shall be
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thence discharged by due course of Saw and for so doing this shall be your
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sufficient Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal this 20th. day of October in the
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Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety One.
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Sampr. Wright Ll.
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That the Prisoner when brought in had a double Link Iron upon one Leg
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That He Ordered another double Iron to be put upon him, That Roberts said he had
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to shew him Indulgence, that he took off the double
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Link and put on a light Iron with a
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single Link
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, that several Prisoners Fines came
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from
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, that the Servants went into the Publick House usually to Drink
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upon that occasion, that the Inner Door between the Lodge and the Court Yard was
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not locked but shut to, and appeared to Witness to be locked when he Woodward
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went out, That the outward Door was Locked, That Oxley must have gone into
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the yard and escaped by a Letter, That Oxley was kept in the Lodge (which is a
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matter of Indulgence. That Kings Evidences by Indulgence are generally kept
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