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<p n="877">if there was any occasion for him to appear at any subsequent Sessions<lb></lb>
against the said Hancock who informed this deponent he need<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
attend nor trouble himself any further about him and that he<lb></lb>
this Deponent since the said Hancock was so discharged hath not<lb></lb>
seen nor heard of him nor doth he know where he is to be found<lb></lb>
And this Deponent further saith that at the time the said was<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
were granted by the said Justices against the said Chandler and<lb></lb>
Hancock a warrant was also granted by him against the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50828_n877-1">William Cook</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50828_n877-1" type="surname" value="Cook"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50828_n877-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and this Deponent was then also bound by the said<lb></lb>
Justice in another Recognizance of Forty pounds to appear at the then<lb></lb>
next Sessions and prosecute the said Indictment against the said<lb></lb>
Cook but that the said Cook finding the said Hancock and Chandler<lb></lb>
apprehended immediately cloped and as he this Deponent hath been<lb></lb>
informed and verily believes Fled out of the County of Hants into<lb></lb>
Yorkshire and did not appear at large again untill the said Chandler<lb></lb>
and Hancock were discharged and that in or about the Month of<lb></lb>
March last the said Cook was by Virtue of the said Warrant grant<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
against him apprehended and Committed to Winton Goal but<lb></lb>
how or when the said Cook was removed and appeared to take his<lb></lb>
Trial or when the said Cook was discharged this Deponent doth<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
know nor did they Deponent think himself in any manner bound<lb></lb>
or obliged to appear against the said Cook when he was so taken but<lb></lb>
was informed by his Council as well as Messrs. Downe and Cox his<lb></lb>
attorneys that he need not appear against him and if he had appeared<lb></lb>
against him this Deponent is advised he the said Cook would have<lb></lb>
been acquitted of the said Indictment he being Indicted by the<lb></lb>
Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50828_n877-2">George</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50828_n877-2" type="surname" value="Cook"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50828_n877-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
instead of William as this Deponent Verily<lb></lb>
believes and this Deponent saith that the Costs and Charges paid by<lb></lb>
this Deponent in preferring and prosecuting the said Indictment<lb></lb>
against the said Chandler Cook and Hancock amounts to the Sum of<lb></lb>
One hundred pounds and upwards</p>
<p n="878"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50828_n878-1">Richard Stephens</rs>
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</p>
<p n="879">Sworn at the said Borough this first day of<lb></lb>
November 1787 before me}</p>
<p n="880">One of this Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50828_occ152">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the said County & Borough</p>
<p n="881"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50828_n881-1">John Carter</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50828_n881-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</p>
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