The King
agt.
Thomas Shillingford< no role >
and William Prior< no role > }
At the Prosecution of
Joseph Hobbs< no role > for a
Misdemeanoar

Robert James< no role > of the Parish of Westham in the County
of Esex Carpenter maketh Oath and Saith that he this
Deponent did on Saturday last being the Seventeenth day
of this Instant May go to the Prosecutors house at Winchmore
Hill in the County of Middlesex in Order to Serve him with
a Notice of Tryal in this Cause And this Deponent Saith
that when this Deponent came to the Prosecutor's house
at Winchmore Hill aforesaid he knocked at the Door when
Elizabeth Hobbs< no role > the Prosecutor's Sister and House keeper-
came to the Door and told this Deponent that her Broker
the Prosecutor was not at home, This Deponent there upon
toled the said Elizabeth Hobbs< no role > that he came to Serve her brother
the Prosecutor with a Notice from the Defendants that they
would try their Traverse upon the Indictment preferred
against them, as on this day at Hick's Hall and desired that
she would Open the door and take the said Notice in an deliver
it to the Prosecutor which she absolutely refused Upon which
he this Deponent (when he found he could get us Entrance or-
Admittance into the Prosecutor's house) pushed or shored a-
true Copy of the Notice hereunto Annexed under the said
Prosecutor's Door and there left it And this Deponent further
saith that he hath great reason to beleive that the said
Prosecutor Joseph Hobbs< no role > was then Actually at home and
that he was Denyed to this Deponents by his Sister the said-
Elizabeth Hobbs< no role > for fear of being taken in Execution upon a
Verdict Obtained against him sometime since in the Court of