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<p n="53">imprisonment, a Petition was presented to his Majesty containing<lb></lb>
not so many lines as falsehoods, and great application was made to<lb></lb>
me to report in his favour. For the real truth of his case as it appeared<lb></lb>
in evidence on his tryal I refer to my report now in your Lordship's<lb></lb>
Office.</p>
<p n="54">Finding that a Mr Hutton of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50646_geo22">Chelsea</rs>
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, but whom I remember<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50646_occ12">Bookseller</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50646_geo23">Temple Bar</rs>
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had propagated many Falsehoods<lb></lb>
respecting this Marten and his prosecutor, who appeared to have<lb></lb>
acted with caution and behaved with great civility, Finding I say<lb></lb>
this Mr Hutton had thus interfered, I applied to the Office<lb></lb>
meaning to have guarded your Lordship against that deceit<lb></lb>
which I knew would be attempted, but failing of access to your Lordship<lb></lb>
I communicated my Business to Mr Eden, who assured me my<lb></lb>
information should be attended to; the like intimation I at the same<lb></lb>
time left at Lord Rochford's office.</p>
<p n="55">Marten had lain about five Months under his Sentence<lb></lb>
when I received an order for his Discharge, which I immediately<lb></lb>
obeyed, and in a few days by the newspapers it was proclaimed to the<lb></lb>
World and to all that feared to be arrested, that for this Offence the<lb></lb>
most attrocious of the kind that I have ever tried, and without the<lb></lb>
least palliating circumstance, Marten had received his Majestys<lb></lb>
Pardon</p>
<p n="56">Upon my calling at your Lordships Office some days after, Mr Fraser was<lb></lb>
so good as to acquaint me with the opinion that the Office entertained<lb></lb>
of this Mans case; and I am left to Suppose that that opinion<lb></lb>
rather than my report, was the ground of his Discharge Mr Fraser<lb></lb>
said "the poor devil having lain a twelve month in prison, and he<lb></lb>
"having been irritated by the indecent behaviour of the Officer to his<lb></lb>
"Wife, it was by the Office thought a hard case to keep him in confine<lb></lb>
"ment under the Sentence, and the rather as he<del>Might</del>
must after<lb></lb>
"the pardon remain a Prisoner for debt</p>
<p n="57">Both of these Suggestions are false, Marten had lain in prison<lb></lb>
under his Sentence no longer than from October to April. As to<lb></lb>
indecent Behaviour of the Officer to Marten's Wife he could have no<lb></lb>
temptation to it Marten was in the room, it was the interest of the</p>
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