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The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
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Indicted for Felony<lb></lb>
on the prosecution of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2928-2">John Shutt</rs>
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<p n="2929"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2929-1">John Shutt</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2203">Shoreditch</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2204">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Grocer the<lb></lb>
Prosecutor in this Cause maketh Oath and saith that he this Deponent<lb></lb>
together with his Servant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2929-2">Thomas Moses</rs>
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being bound by Recognizance<lb></lb>
to prosecute and give Evidence against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2929-3">Richard Beard</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
Stealing a quantity of Soap the property of this Deponent attended<lb></lb>
on Tuesday the ninth day of December instant at the Session of the<lb></lb>
peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2205">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and preferred an Indictment<lb></lb>
to the Grand Jury there against the said Defendant And this<lb></lb>
Deponent further saith that he and his said Servant attended<lb></lb>
at the Session of Gaol Delivery of Newgate holden for the said<lb></lb>
County at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2206">Justice Hall in the Old Bailey</rs>
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on Wednesday the Tenth<lb></lb>
day of December instant and also on the Thursday and Friday<lb></lb>
following in order to give Evidence against the said Defendant<lb></lb>
on his Trial but the same did not come on and this Deponent<lb></lb>
also attended on the Saturday following till about eleven<lb></lb>
o'Clock in the forenoon when this Deponent was informed<lb></lb>
by a Person who he believes attended the said Court as<lb></lb>
a Door Keeper that the London Jury were to sit in the Afternoon<lb></lb>
and from such Information this Deponent believed that the<lb></lb>
Trial of the said Defendant would not come on that Afternoon<lb></lb>
And this Deponent saith that being afflicted with a very<lb></lb>
bad Cold by reason of such Attendance and believing from<lb></lb>
the Information he had received that the Trial of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2929-4">Richard<lb></lb>
Beard</rs>
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would not come on that Afternoon he this Deponent<lb></lb>
went home And on Monday Morning following this Deponent<lb></lb>
and his said Servant attended at the said Sessions at<lb></lb>
Justice Hall aforesaid when he this Deponent was informed<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2929-5">Richard Beard</rs>
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had been called up to be</p>
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