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The King
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For Forgery
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Samuel Fisher
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the abovenamed Defendant Maketh Oath
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That a Bill of Indictment has been preferred and found against
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this Deponent for Forgery and was not Taken up untill Monday
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last Since which time his Sollicitor has been to the house of
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Mr
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John Green
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who lives at
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Northamptonshire
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And Informed him That this Deponent was Taken in Custody
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And waste to Take his Tryal at this present Sessions when he
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found the said
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John Green
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Confirmed to his room by the Gout
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And could not Stir out but wod Attend at the next Sessions
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And as this Deponent
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Saith That the said
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John Green
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is Principal
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Witness on Behalf of this Deponent
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on the said Tryal and therefore Cant without his
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Evidence Safely Go to Tryal thereon Therefore humbly hopes
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That this Honourable Court will put off his Tryal hill the
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Next Sessions at which time he will be ready and desirous
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to Take his Tryal on the said Indictment
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Sworn the 16th Jany. 1769
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at the Sessions house in the
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By the Court
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Saml. Fisher
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