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<p n="692"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo305">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
January Session 1799</p>
<p n="693">The King on the prosecution of Smith and<lb></lb>
another<lb></lb>
agst.<lb></lb>
Holman and Others</p>
<p n="694"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50957_n694-1">William Smith</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo306">Cheines Street</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo307">Saint Giles in the Fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo308">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the above named Prosecutor maketh Oath and Saith<lb></lb>
that a true Bill of Indictment against the above<lb></lb>
named Defendants has been found this Sessions<lb></lb>
for a Riot and Saith that he is informed<lb></lb>
and verily believes that two of the above Defts.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50957_n694-2">Robert Masters</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50957_n694-3">Hannah Masters</rs>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50957_occ121">wife</rs>
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<lb></lb>
have absconded and that the Other Defendants<lb></lb>
are expected to do the same and that they intend<lb></lb>
after the end of this present Session to procure<lb></lb>
persons to become bail for them who are<lb></lb>
of no responsibility and are in the constant<lb></lb>
practice of becoming Bail for hire</p>
<p n="695">Sworn in Open Court at the Session<lb></lb>
House <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo309">Clerkenwell Green</rs>
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this 12th.<lb></lb>
day of January 1799}</p>
<p n="696">Hall</p>
<p n="697"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50957_n697-1">Wm. Smith</rs>
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