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that he was soon going for London to give his Evidence against
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the said Mr Bagehott on the bill of Indictment found there
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Saith, That the Said
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Officer who arrested this deponent the summe of Seventeen
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towards London aforesaid in or about the Month of may last
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and hath not Returned to Bergavenny aforesaid, nor doth this
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Sworn in Court the
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