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The King on the prosecution of
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Christopher
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Charles Kane
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Clerk to
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William Stauy
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of Poland Street in the
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for the defendants maketh oath
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and saith That in consequence of a Bill of Indictment having
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against the above named defendants and they having only
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put in Bail to try the same at the present Sessions this
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deponent made inquiry after the place of abode of the said
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and this deponent Saith that on the seventeenth
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Westminster for the purpose
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of serving him personally with such Notice hit was
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informed as Deponent believes by the mistress of the House
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that the said prosecutor was in the County and that his
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return was
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her that he wanted to see her Husband to serve him
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the Wife of the said Prosector But the
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refusing to receive the same and persisting in such
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of the Notice hereunto annexed) towards her into there
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