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<p n="3">Town Court House near Westmr. Hall in and for the Liberty of the Dean and<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65450_occ13">Chapter</rs>
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of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westmr. the City Borough and Town of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65450_geo12">Middx</rs>
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and Saint Martin Le Grand London on Wednesday<lb></lb>
the Eighteenth Day of April in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord George the Second King of Great Britain etc before <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-1">Henry Fielding</rs>
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Martin<lb></lb>
Clare Thomas Lediard <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-2">George Payne</rs>
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and others their Fellows Justices of our<lb></lb>
said Lord the King Assigned to keep the peace in the said Liberty and also to hear<lb></lb>
and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed within the<lb></lb>
said Liberty Come the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-3">James Joes</rs>
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in their Own persons and having heard the said Indictment<lb></lb>
read the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-8">James Joes</rs>
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and Thomas<lb></lb>
Weston Severally say that they are not guilty thereof and her upon they<lb></lb>
severally put themselves upon the County and <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-12">Peter Forbes</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Peace of the Liberty aforesaid who prosecuted for our said Lord the King in this<lb></lb>
Behalf doth the like etc therefore by the Consent of the said James Joes Preston<lb></lb>
Powell <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-13">John Bone</rs>
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Rattcliff Littler and <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-14">Thomas Weston</rs>
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lot a Jury thereupon (for<lb></lb>
the Trial of the Issue aforesaid between our said Lord the King and the said James<lb></lb>
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so as aforesaid<lb></lb>
Joined) imediately come before the Justices of our said Lord the King last above<lb></lb>
named by whom the Truth of the matter will be the better known and who have<lb></lb>
no affinity to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-19">James Joes</rs>
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to recognize upon their Oath whether the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-24">James Joes</rs>
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be guilty of<lb></lb>
the Premisses in the Indictment aforesaid above specifed or not because as<lb></lb>
well the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-29">Peter Forbes</rs>
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who prosecuted for our said Lord the King in this<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-34">Thomas Weston</rs>
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have put themselves upon that Jury and the Jurors of the<lb></lb>
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of the Liberty aforesaid in the<lb></lb>
County aforesaid for this purpose impaunelled and returned to <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-36">Wit Thomas</rs>
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Cosby Edward Stain <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-37">George Derby</rs>
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Hempstead<lb></lb>
Hyatt <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-40">Edward Griffith</rs>
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being called come who being chosen tryed and sworn to speak the<lb></lb>
Truth of and upon the premisses aforesaid in the Indictment aforesaid above<lb></lb>
specified do say upon their Oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-46">James Joes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-48">John Bone</rs>
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are not nor either of them is guilty of the<lb></lb>
premisses aforesaid in the Indictment aforesaid above specified in Manner<lb></lb>
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for themselves above by their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-54">Thomas Weston</rs>
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-55">Thomas Weston</rs>
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Guilty of the Trespasses and Offence aforesaid in the Indictment Aforesaid<lb></lb>
above specified in Manner and Town as by the said Indictment above against<lb></lb>
him is supposed whereupon all and singular the premisses being against<lb></lb>
and understood by the Court here His considered by the Court here that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65450_n3-56">Thomas Weston</rs>
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pay to our said Lord the King One Shilling for his Five<lb></lb>
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