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<p n="1449">December 1791</p>
<p n="1450">must be a judge if Gates open or shut, That he never let Oxley go into the <lb></lb>
yard after Dusk, That he was gone out of the Prison about Fifteen Minutes when he <lb></lb>
made his Escape, That he had directions from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1189">Bow Street</rs>
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to treat him as he was <lb></lb>
treated before, That he had a Single Link at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1190">Tothill fields</rs>
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and therefore he put on a<lb></lb>
Single Link, Markwith told him he had directions at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1191">Bow Street</rs>
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to shew him every <lb></lb>
Indulgence; George the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ564">Butcher</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1192">Smithfield</rs>
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came to see Oxley the Afternoon that he <lb></lb>
escaped, That the Publican who keeps the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1193">Coach and Horses</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1194">Smithfield</rs>
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was also <lb></lb>
with him that Afternoon. That Witness was in the Lodge or between the Gates all the <lb></lb>
time they were with the Prisoner, That it is usual to permit Persons to See Prisoners <lb></lb>
unless instructed to the contrary, That Barnard an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ565">Attorney</rs>
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was also that Afternoon <lb></lb>
to see Prisoner and two others with him, That nobody was there but Prisoners Wife <lb></lb>
at the time he made his Escape, thinks that if Prisoner had been double Ironed he <lb></lb>
could not have escaped where he did.</p>
<p n="1451">John Markwith the Task Master at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1195">House of Correction</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was next Examined who said he was the first Person who took Oxley to <lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1196">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1197">Bridewell</rs>
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, That he did not see <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ566">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n1451-1">Sampson Wright</rs>
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himself when at Bow <lb></lb>
Street but that Mr Lavender the Clerk directed him to shew Oxley every Indulgence in a <lb></lb>
medium way, but not to let him get away, he understood by that, that he was to <lb></lb>
have a Lighter Iron and to have such Indulgence as the Prison would afford that they <lb></lb>
changed the Iron because he was to have every Indulgence, He understood from <lb></lb>
Lavender the Clerk that he was to have Indulgence by <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ567">Sir</rs>
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Sampson's directions and <lb></lb>
understood he was to keep him between Gates and to shew him every Indulgence <lb></lb>
the Prison would afford, Witness desired a Lighter Iron might be put on because <lb></lb>
Mr Lavendar desired every civility to be shw'n him that according to Mr Lavender's<lb></lb>
Word he thought him too heavily Ironed, That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n1451-2">He Oxley</rs>
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never to Witnesses <lb></lb>
knowledge desired to have his Iron changed, That when he came in he had a <lb></lb>
double Iron on one Leg, that he escaped with the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ568">single Iron</rs>
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on, That Witness was <lb></lb>
away form home when he escaped, the Iron had been changed 4 or 5 days </p>
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