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The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50756_n410-1">Robert James</rs>
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Indicted for Assaulting<lb></lb>
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Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50756_n410-2">Thomas Dempsey</rs>
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<p n="411"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50756_n411-1">Robert James</rs>
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of the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50756_geo409">Saint Luke</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50756_geo410">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Weaver the Defendant in this Cause maketh Oath and saith that at the<lb></lb>
Session of the peace held for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50756_geo411">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in the month of<lb></lb>
May last this Deponent was Indicted for assaulting in the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50756_n411-2">Frances</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50756_n411-3">Thomas Dempsey</rs>
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And that he did during the same Session appear<lb></lb>
and plead Not Guilty to the said Indictment and gave Bail to try his<lb></lb>
Traverse thereon at this present Session but this Deponent did not employ<lb></lb>
any Attorney on putting in such Bail And this Deponent saith that<lb></lb>
he apprehended and believed that if at any time before this present<lb></lb>
Session he applied to an Attorney to be Concerned for him in the Defence of the<lb></lb>
said Indictment, the Trial could have been brought on And this Deponent<lb></lb>
further saith that he did on Friday last Apply to Mr Chetham an Attorney<lb></lb>
at Law to be concerned for this Deponent in bringing on the said Trial at this present Session when<lb></lb>
Mr Chetham informed this Deponent that it was then too late to give regular<lb></lb>
Notice of Trial And this Deponent further saith that he did not Omit to do<lb></lb>
what was necessary to bring on the said Trial with any Intent to postpone<lb></lb>
the same but intirely through Ignorance and from his being unacquainted<lb></lb>
with the Cause of Business at the Sessions.</p>
<p n="412">Sworn in open Court at the Session House for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50756_geo412">County of Middlesex</rs>
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At the General<lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the peace holden for the<lb></lb>
said County on Monday the 1st day of July<lb></lb>
1782}</p>
<p n="413">Hall</p>
<p n="414"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50756_n414-1">Robert. James</rs>
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