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<lb></lb>
January Session<lb></lb>
1774</p>
<p n="152">The King on the Prosecution of<lb></lb>
William Wisnan<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50637_occ65">wife</rs>
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(Indicted by the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50637_n152-31">Martha </rs>
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ward</rs>
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For a<lb></lb>
Misdemeanor</p>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50637_n153-3">George Hewlins</rs>
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four of<lb></lb>
the Defendants above named upon their Oaths each deposing for himself<lb></lb>
say That they cannot with any Degree of safety try the Traverses in this<lb></lb>
Prosecution at this present Session without the Testimony of one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50637_n153-4">John MacDonald</rs>
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Donald who these Deponents severally say is a<lb></lb>
material witness for them and each and every of the Defendants and the<lb></lb>
Reason these Deponents came of have the benefit of his Testimony on the<lb></lb>
Trial of the above Indictment (if the same was ordered for this Session) is<lb></lb>
because he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50637_n153-5">John Macdonald</rs>
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now is and for some Time past<lb></lb>
hath been in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50637_geo122">workhouse</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50637_geo123">Parish of Saint Dunstan</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
went in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50637_geo124">City of London</rs>
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on a Risk Bed and is at Present so ill<lb></lb>
that he can service in Her an Int<obscured></obscured>
able Word and is not by any means<lb></lb>
able to attend the Tryal at this present Session And these Deponents<lb></lb>
further say that being willing to comply with the Order of last Session<lb></lb>
used every Effort to come to afair Arbitration so as the same might be<lb></lb>
finally determined But the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50637_n153-6">John Macdonald</rs>
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the material as<lb></lb>
Witness as aforesaid being so extremely He as to be totally unable to give<lb></lb>
Testimony before the arbitrator appointed by the Court the Defendants<lb></lb>
would not properly come before him because the Arbitrament or Award for want<lb></lb>
of such Testimony (which is essentially material) might have been given<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
the Defendants and these Deponents Say that the Time Rented<lb></lb>
by the said Order being for this Sessions and the said Material Witness<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50637_n153-7">John Macdonald</rs>
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being still sick it is impossible for them or any of them<lb></lb>
saftely to go to Tryal Therefore desire their several Recognizance<lb></lb>
may be Respited till next Session</p>
<p n="154">Sworn in Court the Fifteenth Day<lb></lb>
January 1774 Before}</p>
<p n="155">W:</p>
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by<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50637_n156-2">Ricd. Down</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50637_n156-3">John Ward</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50637_n156-4">Geo. Hewlins</rs>
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