Sessions Old Baily
The King
agt
John Cox< no role >
On the Presecution of
Jonathan Chubb< no role >
for a
Perjury
John Cox< no role >
late of Bridgwater
in the County of Somersett
Merchant
the above
named Defendant Maketh Oath and Saith That at the last Sessions his honourable
Court was pleased to Order and Derect him this Deponent to pay to the above named
Prosecutor
Jonathan Chubb< no role >
or to his Sollicitor the Sum of Twenty pounds Adjudged
by this honourable Court as Coots to be paid to said Prosecutor for his expences
in bringing his witnesses to london to attend the trial of the said Indictment
preferred against him the said Defendant And this Deponent further Saith that
by means of the said Prosecutor Jonathan Chubb< no role >
and his well known
intention further to ruin and oppress Deponent he this Deponent by long
imprisonment and other oppressive modes is greatly reduced in his Circum-
-stances And Deponent further Saith that in Order to Comply as much as in his
power lay with the Direction of this honourable Court Deponent at the Close
of the last Sessions applyed to a Friend in London who upon Former occasions
had used to Supply and lend money to Deponent In Order to procure money
from his said Friend to bear Deponents expences into the County where Deponent
was in hopes of raising money sufficient to enable Deponent to Comply with the said
Order of this honourable Court And Deponent Saith that his Friend upon that
occasion absolutely refused to supply Deponent with any Sum of Money for
that or any other purpose saying he had seen an Advertisement in the Saint
James's Chronicle which advertisement or Paragraph Deponent believes was
Sent to the said Paper by the said Jonathan Chubb or his Son John Chubb< no role >
or by
his or their Direction or procurement And this Deponent Saith that with this
greatest difficulty Deponent got into the County at Bridgewater and being
three upon particular business was prevented Compleating the same by
some Letter wrote from there to London greatly to the Injury of Deponent
Character and therein Representing Deponent as a Dangerous man not fit
to be trusted upon business of the least Consequnce which said Letter is now
in Deponents power or prossession And this Deponent Saith that without