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<p n="25">The King against<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50372_n25-1">Catherine Downes</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
For Felony</p>
<p n="26"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50372_n26-1">William Lovett</rs>
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of Broad <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50372_geo17">Saint Giles's</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50372_geo18">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50372_occ8">Cheesmonger</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50372_n26-2">William Ellis</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50372_geo19">Drury Lane</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
same County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50372_occ9">Cordwainer</rs>
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Severally make Oath and first<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50372_n26-3">William Lovett</rs>
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Saith that he Attended this Court<lb></lb>
last Wednesday Morning from Ten O' Clock 'till twelve in<lb></lb>
Order to give his Evidence on the Trial of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50372_n26-4">Catherine<lb></lb>
Downes</rs>
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and that he was then Informed by One of the<lb></lb>
Officers Attending the Court in Blue Gowns that no<lb></lb>
Trial would come on that day that was not then in the<lb></lb>
List Stuck up in the Court Yard, and this Deponent saith<lb></lb>
that this Cause was not then in the said list and therefore<lb></lb>
this Deponent went away and Come again the next<lb></lb>
Morning when to his great Surprize he was told<lb></lb>
that the Prisoner was Discharged the night before<lb></lb>
and further Saith that it was not through the<lb></lb>
least Contempt of this Honourable Court that<lb></lb>
he went away last Wednesday at Twelve o'Clock <lb></lb>
but entirely for the reason abovementioned And<lb></lb>
Lastly the said Deponent <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50372_n26-5">William Ellis</rs>
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Saith that <lb></lb>
he was Attending here as a Witness in another Cause on<lb></lb>
Wednesday last and saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50372_n26-6">William Lovett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Attending in the Court Yard that Morning.</p>
<p n="27">Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50372_geo20">Justice Hall<lb></lb>
in the Old Bailey</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50372_date12">5th.<lb></lb>
day of September 1746</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="28">By the Court</p>
<p n="29"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50372_n29-1">William Lovett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50372_n29-2">William<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Ellis</rs>
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