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November last bound by Recognizance before <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n15-2">John Hart</rs>
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one of<lb></lb>
the Aldermen of this City to prosecute <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n15-3">John Standley</rs>
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Session to be held for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo17">City of London</rs>
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for feloniously stealing out<lb></lb>
of a Ware house at Dice Key Twenty pounds weight of moist sugar<lb></lb>
of the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
lue of Ten shillings and this Deponent saith that he did<lb></lb>
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an Indictment to be made out against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n15-4">John Standley</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the said Offence, And this Deponent further saith that he did<lb></lb>
attend on Friday the Tenth day of December at Justice Hall in the<lb></lb>
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at Ten after Clock in the forenoon in Order to prefer<lb></lb>
the said Indictment to the Grand Jury when he was there informed<lb></lb>
that the Grand Jury had been discharged the Evening before and<lb></lb>
that he this Deponent had for forfeited his Recognizance, And this<lb></lb>
Deponent further saith that the Jurys having been discharged<lb></lb>
so soon was a very un usual thing and what this Deponent<lb></lb>
humbly conceive's has not happened for many Years, And the<obscured></obscured>
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Deponent further saith that he did not neglect to attend sooner out of any<lb></lb>
favour or affection to the said prisoner or for any reward or<obscured></obscured>
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or promise thereof but that he wish'd and intended to have prosecuted<lb></lb>
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for the said Offence and did verily believe<lb></lb>
that Friday would have been in time for that purpose</p>
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the 12th. day of January<lb></lb>
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<p n="17">By the Court</p>
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