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December 1791
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must be a judge if Gates open or shut, That he never let Oxley go into the
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yard after Dusk, That he was gone out of the Prison about Fifteen Minutes when he
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made his Escape, That he had directions from
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to treat him as he was
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treated before, That he had a Single Link at
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Single Link, Markwith told him he had directions at
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to shew him every
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Indulgence; George the
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Butcher
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came to see Oxley the Afternoon that he
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escaped, That the Publican who keeps the
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Coach and Horses
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was also
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with him that Afternoon. That Witness was in the Lodge or between the Gates all the
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time they were with the Prisoner, That it is usual to permit Persons to See Prisoners
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unless instructed to the contrary, That Barnard an
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was also that Afternoon
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to see Prisoner and two others with him, That nobody was there but Prisoners Wife
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at the time he made his Escape, thinks that if Prisoner had been double Ironed he
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could not have escaped where he did.
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John Markwith the Task Master at the
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was next Examined who said he was the first Person who took Oxley to
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Bridewell
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, That he did not see
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Sampson Wright
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himself when at Bow
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Street but that Mr Lavender the Clerk directed him to shew Oxley every Indulgence in a
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medium way, but not to let him get away, he understood by that, that he was to
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have a Lighter Iron and to have such Indulgence as the Prison would afford that they
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changed the Iron because he was to have every Indulgence, He understood from
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Lavender the Clerk that he was to have Indulgence by
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Sampson's directions and
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understood he was to keep him between Gates and to shew him every Indulgence
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the Prison would afford, Witness desired a Lighter Iron might be put on because
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Mr Lavendar desired every civility to be shw'n him that according to Mr Lavender's
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Word he thought him too heavily Ironed, That
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never to Witnesses
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knowledge desired to have his Iron changed, That when he came in he had a
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double Iron on one Leg, that he escaped with the
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on, That Witness was
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away form home when he escaped, the Iron had been changed 4 or 5 days
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