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<p n="119">therefore refused to accept the said thirty Pounds or consent to the said<lb></lb>
Petition and went home to their House at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50678_geo76">Edgware</rs>
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's thereupon the<lb></lb>
Defendt. was committed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50678_geo77">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
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whose he still<lb></lb>
continues And this Depont. further saith that he did yesterday in the<lb></lb>
Evening the sixteenth of this instant February serve the Prosecutrix &<lb></lb>
prosecutor severally with a Notice in Writing purporting that this Court<lb></lb>
would be moved on the Morrow or as soon as Counsel' could be heard<lb></lb>
That the Fines set on the Deft on the Trial of the above Indictmts might be<lb></lb>
mitigated by delivering such to the said Prosecutrix at her House at<lb></lb>
Edgware and at the same time tendering to her the said Sum of thirty<lb></lb>
Pounds which she absolutely refused to take And this Depont. further<lb></lb>
saith that this Depont. would likewise have served the Prosecutor<lb></lb>
with the like Notice and made the like tender to him but the prosecutor<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50678_n119-1">William Brookshead</rs>
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the Elder her husband both declared that<lb></lb>
although the said Prosecutor <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50678_n119-2">William Brookshead</rs>
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the Younger was<lb></lb>
at home it was to no Purpose seeing him as he would not accept the<lb></lb>
the said Money & therefore this Depont. left the said Notice with the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50678_n119-3">William Brookshead</rs>
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the Elder the prosecutors Father And this<lb></lb>
Deponent further saith that he did likewise serve a like Notice or<lb></lb>
the said Mr Deacon at his house at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50678_geo78">Watford</rs>
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by delivering such Notice<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50678_n119-4">Sarah Leverett</rs>
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the said Mr. Deacons Maid Servant as she informed<lb></lb>
this Deponent.</p>
<p n="120">Sworn in Court the 17th day of February<lb></lb>
1778.</p>
<p n="121">W</p>
<p n="122">S Harman</p>
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