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