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<p n="1438">December 1791</p>
<p n="1439">By Adjournment same day.</p>
<p n="1440">Resolved that the Escape of John Oxon otherwise Oxley out of the <lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1169">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1170">Clerkenwell</rs>
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be enquired into, and it being stated that Mr. <lb></lb>
Harwood the Governor was ill and not able to attend the Court.</p>
<p n="1441"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n1441-1">John Woodward</rs>
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the Turnkey attended who being Examined said that <lb></lb>
Mr Harwood was very ill and unable to come out; That Oxley was Committed by the <lb></lb>
name of Oxon by <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ555">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n1441-2">Sampson Wright</rs>
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by virtue of a Commitment which was Read in <lb></lb>
the following Words Vizt.</p>
<p n="1442"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1171">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit: To The Governor of the House of Correction at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1172">Clerkenwell</rs>
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or <lb></lb>
his Deputy.</p>
<p n="1443">Receive into your Custody the Body of John Oxon herewith sent you brought, <lb></lb>
before me <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ556">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n1443-1">Sampson Wright</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ557">knt</rs>
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. One of His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ558">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and <lb></lb>
for the said County by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n1443-2">Thomas Ting</rs>
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and Charged before me the said Justice upon the <lb></lb>
Oaths of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n1443-3">Edward Dilliston</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n1443-4">John Sirel</rs>
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and others, on suspicion of having Feloniously <lb></lb>
Robbed the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1173">Aylesbury</rs>
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, Rotherham, and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1174">Cambridge</rs>
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Mails agt. the Statute Etc Him <lb></lb>
safely keep in your said County for further Examination or untill He shall be <lb></lb>
thence discharged by due course of Saw and for so doing this shall be your <lb></lb>
sufficient Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal this 20th. day of October in the <lb></lb>
Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety One.</p>
<p n="1444">Sampr. Wright Ll.</p>
<p n="1445">That the Prisoner when brought in had a double Link Iron upon one Leg <lb></lb>
That He Ordered another double Iron to be put upon him, That Roberts said he had <lb></lb>
directions from <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ559">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n1445-1">Sampson Wright</rs>
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to shew him Indulgence, that he took off the double <lb></lb>
Link and put on a light Iron with a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ560">single Link</rs>
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, that several Prisoners Fines came <lb></lb>
from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1175">Newgate</rs>
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, that the Servants went into the Publick House usually to Drink <lb></lb>
upon that occasion, that the Inner Door between the Lodge and the Court Yard was <lb></lb>
not locked but shut to, and appeared to Witness to be locked when he Woodward <lb></lb>
went out, That the outward Door was Locked, That Oxley must have gone into <lb></lb>
the yard and escaped by a Letter, That Oxley was kept in the Lodge (which is a <lb></lb>
matter of Indulgence. That Kings Evidences by Indulgence are generally kept</p>
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