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<p n="274">The King agt. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50515_n274-1">Paul Lewis</rs>
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On the Prosecution<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50515_n274-2">Thomas Taverner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50515_n274-3">Mary Brooke</rs>
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& others<lb></lb>
For Felony and Robery<obscured></obscured>
the<lb></lb>
Highway</p>
<p n="275"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50515_n275-1">Thomas Taverner</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50515_n275-2">Mary Brooke</rs>
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above named<lb></lb>
each Speaking for himself and herself make Oath and Say<lb></lb>
And first this Deponent <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50515_n275-3">Thomas Taverner</rs>
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for himself Saith<lb></lb>
That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50515_n275-4">John Uncle</rs>
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who drove the Coach of the Time of the above<lb></lb>
Robery is a Material Witness for the King in this prosecution<lb></lb>
and without whose Testimony it will not be Safe to proceed<del>to</del>
<lb></lb>
to Tryall And further saith That the said John Uncle an driving<lb></lb>
this Deponents Coach to Oxford on Wednesday the Thirteenth<lb></lb>
Instant was taken very Ill on the Road thither on soon after<lb></lb>
he Arrived there as this Deponent hath been Credibly Informed<lb></lb>
and believe and by Reason thereof has not been able to<lb></lb>
Came to London since as this Deponent also believes<lb></lb>
That on Saturday last the Wife of the said John was sent for<lb></lb>
in great Hasle to go down to Oxford to him an Account of such<lb></lb>
his Illness And that Yesterday he this Deponent received Account<lb></lb>
from Oxford that the said John still Continued very Ill and<lb></lb>
unable to Come to London which Account this Deponent believes<lb></lb>
to be true. And this Deponent <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50515_n275-7">Mary Brooke</rs>
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for herself<lb></lb>
Saith That in her Journey hither to Attend the Tryall in this<lb></lb>
Cause she Coming thro' Oxford went to see the said John Uncle<lb></lb>
there who this Deponent found in Bed and in this Deponents<lb></lb>
Judgment very Ill And this Deponent further Saith that she was<del>Informed</del>
<lb></lb>
then Informed at Oxford aforesaid by the Apothecary Attending the<lb></lb>
said John Uncle there that the said John had for several Day been<lb></lb>
Ill and that the said John was Blistered and was then in a Feaver<lb></lb>
and by reason thereof he Could not with Safety of his Life at present<lb></lb>
be removed so as to Come to London which Information this<lb></lb>
Deponent believes to be true</p>
<p n="276">Sworn at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50515_geo160">Old Baily</rs>
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this<lb></lb>
20th. day of Octr. 1762</p>
<p n="277">By the Court</p>
<p n="278"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50515_n278-1">Thos. Taverner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50515_n278-2">Mary Brooke</rs>
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