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on the
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Prosecution
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Thomas Kinton
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the Prosecutor in this Cause maketh
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Oath & Saith that the said Defendt. Richard Playstowe was
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Indicted on the Prosecution of this Deponent at the Sessions
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of general Delivery of the Kings goal of Newgate holden for
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the
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at Justice hall in the
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within the
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Suburbs of the said City on Wednesday the Seventh Day of
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September last for feloniously forging a Writing on
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paper purporting in it self to be a Promisory Note Signed
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by J. Kynaston Fawkner for the Payment of five pounds
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and five Shillings to him the said Richard Playstowe and
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for publishing the same as true knowing if to be forged
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And this Deponent Saith that at the general Session of
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the Delivery of the said Goal of Newgate holden at Justice
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Hall aforesaid for the said
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on Wednesday
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the twelfth Day of October last the said
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was tryed upon the said Indictment and
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Acquitted as appears by the Certificate here to Annexed
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And this Deponent Saith that the fact for which the Said
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Richard Playstowe
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was Indicted and tryed as aforesaid was
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Committed in London and is the same fact for which the said
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Richard Playstowe
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was first apprehended by this Deponent
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And for which this Deponent together with Josephwrght and
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Charles Backhouse
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entred into Recognizance to prosecute
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before
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Thomas Ellis
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this Depont. Saith he is informed and believes that the said
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Recognizance hath by Mistake been returned to the Clerk of
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the Peace for the
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the fifteenth Day of December
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Sworn
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1748.
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