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the Command of ColonelCochran on which
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Deponent was then detainedbut the whole of the
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said Charge being laid beforethe Right Honourable
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his Majesty's
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Secretary at War
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by the contrivance
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of the sd. Bucknall one
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George Campbell
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a
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a prosecutor
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Also in this Cause and intimate with Bucknall the prosecutors the said
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Rowe now or late a
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Hackney Clerk
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to one
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Adam Gordon
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of the
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and which said Gordon same time ago endeavoured to defraud
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this Deponent of four hundred and Ninety pounds Ten Shilling for
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one Hundred pounds but this Deponent perceiving the same and
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not agreeing thereto the said Gordon in resentmt. with his Client the said
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Bucknall to prevent Deponent Suing him on his Demands form'd and
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Consulted the plan or Scheems for the former and present prosecucons
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in Order to ruin and destroy this Deponent and his family as this
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Deponent has undoubted reason to believe And this Deponent Saith that
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the Secretary at War having upon their sd Applicacon and upon Inquiry
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found their said Charge to be Malicious and groundless as this Dept.
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believes refused to give any direccon for the
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upon the sd. Charge And this Deponent was thereupon Admitted to Bail
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And this Deponent Saith that last September was twelve Months one
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John Hodgins
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who
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made an Affidavitt last Session in this Cause and who was a
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disbanded Soldier or Marine
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but now a
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Bailiffs follower
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as Depont.
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is Informed and believes and who is Intimate with the said Bucknall
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and Rowe as Depot: is informed came to this Deponent in the press yard where he then
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was and now is a prisoner since July last with his Children in
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great distress and Saith that the said Hodgins who this Deponent
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never had seen
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to his knowledge then sent a Letter Signed
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John Hodgins directed to this Depont. who was then in his Room
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and desiring the favour of Admittance to Speak to this Dept.
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acquainting him by sd letter
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that he had been with the said
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George Campbell
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and a Doctor of
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Physick who wanted him to Swear something relating to a WIll of
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one
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George Campbell
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and had promised him Money and to reward him
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hand somely for Swearing and that if be cod. see this Depont. in
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Person he wod. let him know all their Intrigue and what Mr. Fox
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Secretary at War had told them the day before in his presence as by the
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sd. Letter in this Deponents Custody ready to be produced And this Depont.
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thereupon
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