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Make Oath and say that in October
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in the County aforesaid against the
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above named Defendants for having Composed together in Order
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to accuse the said prosecutor of a Crime Which Bill was then found to be
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a true Bill by the said Jury as these Deponents were informed & verily
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believe And this Dept.
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John Laidman
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who then informed
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this Dept that he the said Rider intended soon to go off upon Account
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of the said prosecution and at the same time informed this Dept. that he the
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said Rider was a
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he could not be catehed he could not be had or the said
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then
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expreferd himself in words to that or the like purport or effect And
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this Dept further saith that he hath lately made Strict Inquiry concerning
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the Circumstances of
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one of the Bail for the said Defts
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on this prosecution and was on such Inquiry informed that he is a person
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in very low Circumstances and not possessed of any Estate or Fortune but
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greatly indebted and had lately been in Good and was then affraid of being
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again arrested for Debt which Information this Dept verily believe to be
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me And this Dept.
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Elizabeth Chambers
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saith that no notice of Trial in this
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Cause hath yet been given to her said Husband the prosecutor nor left for
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Prison for about the
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in Saint
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uary 1774}
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