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Whereas it Appears to us two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
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Mary
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the said
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Jane to Prefers a Bill of Indictment against
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in
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september session last and the said Mary and the said Thomas Bolton
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to give Evidence thereon for Stealing a washing Tubb the property of the
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Charles Crew Value Ten pence And the said Thomas Bolton being quite
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Ignorant and Unacquainted with the nature of Presecutions of this Kind And
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at it was not stole from him thought no far ther of it but expected it there
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was a Bill to be found that the said Jane or her Husband would take care
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to prefer the same and give him the said Thomas Bolton Notice when
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the said Eleanor Crowing was to be Tried, as he afterwards Apprehended
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she the said Jane or her Husband had done for on the Friday in the-
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session week she the said Jane called on the said
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and-
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Desired him to go with her to Hicks Hall to Know when the said Eleanor
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bowing was to be Tried which he very readily and willingly did and when they
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came there she the said Jane sayd she would go and Ask And accordingly-
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went to one of the Little offices Just within the Gate and when she returned
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she sayd they must Attend the next Morning by Nine of the Clock being
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Saturday which they accordingly did and when they came there they found
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the said Eleanor Cowing was discharged for want of prosecution and then,
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was informed it was for went of a Bill of Indictment being found against
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her and that it was not though any wilfull neglect or partiality that
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he did not preferr a Bill against the said Eleanor Cowing but intirely thre'
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Ignorance and for the reasons aforesaid These are therefore to Authorize
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and require you to respite and for bear Estreting into his Majesty's
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of Exchequer
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the Recognizance wherein the said Thomas Boltom stands-
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bound to give Evidence against the said Eleanor Cowing as above receted
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so for as relates to the said
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and for your so doing this shall
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be your sufficient Warrant Given under our hands this 30thday of
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November 1767.
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