Middlesex Sessions:
Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents
SM | PS

July 1748

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: LMSMPS503870010

Image 10 of 4317th March 1748


The King
agt
William Denny< no role > Fox}

On an Indictment for Felony

William Denny Fox< no role > now a prisoner in Newgate Maketh Oath and Saith
that he this Deponent was Committed to the Common Goal for the County
of Suffolk on the first day of March last for the fact for which he
hath been indicted and On the Seventeenth day of the same month
of March this Deponent was removed by habeas Corpus to Newgate
and this Deponent being Consecious of his Innocence did at a very
great Expence Cause a great Number of persons of Reputation to be
Subpenaed as witnesses on behalf of this Deponent from the County
of Suffolk in April Sessions last and also at this Sessions which
Said Several persons did then attend in London for and On behalf
of this Deponent in Order to prove his Innocence Concerning
the said Indictment found against him And this Deponent
further Saith that he caused his Council to be feed and delivered
Briefs for his Tryal at the said April Sessions and this
present Sessions And that in Case his Tryal does not Come
on this Sessions that he has great reason to fear he never will
be able to procure the several Witnesses which he hath now
in Town to Attend at any Subsequent Sessions and this Deponent
further saith that James Breame one of this Deponents
Witnesses, Since his return into the Country was arrested on
a Copias at the Sait of the Crown for [..] One hundred pounds
and was Committed to Ipswich Goal and being a Material
Evidence for this Deponent On his Tryal This Deponent, at
a very great Expence, was oblidged to bring the said James Breame< no role >
On a habeas Corpus to testify on behalf of this Deponent
And this Deponent further saith that his Expences in bringing
up the said James Breame and Others to Attend at this
Sessions on behalf of this Deponent, have been so great,
that Unless his Tryal Comes on this Sessions, he shall not
be able to bring them up at any future sessions, he having
Expended the greatest part of his Substance in procuring
and bringing up to London his Said Witnesses And Unless
this Deponent be tryed this Sessions he must inevitably
perish And this Deponent further saith that he hath also
this present Sessions at a great Expence Caused Mrs Carthew
a Lady of fortune and Character from Beerles in Suffolk
to be Subpenaed to attend As a Witness on the behalf of




View as XML