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<p n="126"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50930_geo77">Middlesex</rs>
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Sessions.</note>
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The King on the prosecution of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50930_n126-1">Christopher<lb></lb>
Gildersleeves</rs>
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against<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50930_n126-2">Thomas Smith</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50930_n126-3">Thomas Hudson</rs>
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<p n="127"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50930_n127-1">Charles Kane</rs>
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Clerk to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50930_n127-41">William Stauy</rs>
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of Poland Street in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50930_geo78">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50930_occ13">Solicitor</rs>
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for the defendants maketh oath<lb></lb>
and saith That in consequence of a Bill of Indictment having<lb></lb>
been preferred by the above named <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50930_n127-2">Christopher Gildersleeves</rs>
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<lb></lb>
against the above named defendants and they having only<lb></lb>
put in Bail to try the same at the present Sessions this<lb></lb>
deponent made inquiry after the place of abode of the said<lb></lb>
prosecutor in order to serve him personally with a Copy<lb></lb>
of the Notice of Trial hereunto annexed and deponent was<lb></lb>
informed that the said prosecutor lived in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50930_geo79">Vine Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50930_geo80">Westminster</rs>
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and this deponent Saith that on the seventeenth<lb></lb>
Day of this Instant September he called at the Lodging of<lb></lb>
the said prosecutor in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50930_geo81">Vine Street</rs>
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Westminster for the purpose<lb></lb>
of serving him personally with such Notice hit was<lb></lb>
informed as Deponent believes by the mistress of the House<lb></lb>
that the said prosecutor was in the County and that his<lb></lb>
return was<obscured></obscured>
and further saith that in the<lb></lb>
following day he again called at the lodging's of the<lb></lb>
prosecutor and saw the wife of the prosecutor and informed<lb></lb>
her that he wanted to see her Husband to serve him<lb></lb>
with a Copy of the said Notice of Trial and requested her<lb></lb>
to inform deponent where he might see him but the<lb></lb>
declared to deponent she knew not where to find her<lb></lb>
Husband the said prosecutor-that he had been in the<lb></lb>
Country for Sometime and that he had partly desorted her<lb></lb>
and deponent further saith that on the day after namely on the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Instant he called again turce at the prosecutors Lodgings and<lb></lb>
after repeating his enquires without attacking the least<lb></lb>
information where deponent night he<obscured></obscured>
said prosecutor<lb></lb>
to serve him personally with the said Notice of Trial<lb></lb>
the's deponent endeavoured to serve the said Notice<lb></lb>
of Trial<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Wife of the said Prosector But the<lb></lb>
refusing to receive the same and persisting in such<lb></lb>
refusal this deponent threw the same being a true Copy<lb></lb>
of the Notice hereunto annexed) towards her into there</p>
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