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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45002_geo1">Lincolns Inn</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45002_geo2">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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assistant <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45002_occ1">Sollicitor</rs>
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of his Majesties Treasury Maketh<lb></lb>
Oath and Saith, That he this Deponent on Wednesday night last<lb></lb>
and not before received from Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n1-2">Robert Henley</rs>
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his Majesties<lb></lb>
Attorney General Directions to prosecute at the Expence of the Crown<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n1-21">Michael Sullivam</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n1-3">John Mcleary</rs>
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who were committed some<lb></lb>
time since by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n1-4">George Wright</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45002_occ3">Esquire</rs>
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for Enlisting men into Foreign<lb></lb>
Service and who are now as this Deponent is informed detained in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45002_geo3">Newgate</rs>
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upon the same Commitments and this Deponent Saith<lb></lb>
That at the times he received such Directions form the Attorney<lb></lb>
General he was informed by the said Attorney General that the<lb></lb>
Directions for prosecuting the said Sullivam and Mc. leary were<lb></lb>
not sent to him the said Attorney General form the Secretary of<lb></lb>
State till that day and this Deponent also Saith that Mr:<lb></lb>
Attorney General at the same time ordered this Deponent to<lb></lb>
make the proper Application to this Honourable Court to<lb></lb>
detain the said Sullivam and Mc. leary till the next Sessions<lb></lb>
for that it was impossible for him to be ready to try them this<lb></lb>
present Sessions on Account of his not having received Directions<lb></lb>
for that purpose sooner and for that some of the principal<lb></lb>
Witnesses for the Crown were Solicitors in Lord <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n1-5">Robert<lb></lb>
Manners</rs>
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's Regiment which was then Quartered at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45002_geo4">Dover</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45002_geo5">Kent</rs>
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and without whose Evidences the Crown could not<lb></lb>
with safety proceed to the Tryal of the said Sullivam and<lb></lb>
Mc. leary</p>
<p n="2">Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45002_geo6">Justice Hall in the<lb></lb>
Old Bailey</rs>
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in the Suburbs of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45002_geo7">City of London</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45002_date3">25th.<lb></lb>
of January 1757</rs>
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<p n="3">By the Court</p>
<p n="4"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n4-1">Thos. Francis</rs>
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