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For that the Deft.. by Conspiracy the
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10th. Day of February Anno Rui Dui Georgy nunc Regis Magn
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did knowingly Subtly & Falsly procure frame &
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utrive a certain false writeing
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in paper purporteing that one
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William Lawrence
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by the name of
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William Lawrence
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son of
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Thomas
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Lawrence
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Citizen &
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of London and also for that the Sd. Deft. in further prosecucon of their Said Conspiracy
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did Shew & publish the Sd. False Writeing & then & there did likewise appear wth. the Sd.
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before the Said Chamberlain for a true Writeing & then & there did likewise appear wth. the Sd.
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before
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ye Sd. Chamberlain & Severally averr'd & Declared to the Sd. Chamberlain that ye. Sd.
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in the Sd
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Writeing Named & there prsent was the Son or reputed Son of
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Citizen & Salter of
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London in the Sd. Writeing menconed Where upon the Sd. Chambertain beleiving the Sd. Writeing and
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Declacon of the Defts. to be true did admitd. & Swear the Sd.
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into the Freedome of the Sd
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City Whereas the Sd-
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in truth was not the Son of the Sd.
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Thomas Lawrence
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in the Sd. Writing
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menconed In Maln Exempln Etc In Subversion privileg Etc contrapacem Etc.
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PliP-
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Not Guilty
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Case
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About a Year and a Quarter Since
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it Seemes makeing complaint to the Deft.
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Sherwood that he was very poor & not in condicon of getting his liveing for want of being free of the City
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sherwood thereupon undertook to procure him his Freedome & for that purpose told him he would get a
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copy of one
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a Palter's Freedome wch. was also the name of the Father of
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and that if he Could but procure Six persons to Swear him to be the Son of that
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Thomas Lawrence
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in
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the copy menconed he would then obtain his Freedome Lawrence did thereupon apply to one Gearing a Soldr
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by Sherwood direccon who took ten Shillings to procure that Evidence but Gearing not Succedding
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Sherwood and Tillard first got him made free of the Salters Company and afterwards got four
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persons more to couch before the Chamberlain that he was the Son of the Sd.
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Thomas Lawrence
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as
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above Whereupon he was made free Mr Chamberlain afterwards haveing resed Some informacon
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that this Freedome had been fraudulently obtained Sent for Lawrence & interrogated him upon it
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Lawrence at Length confesses the Rognery put Informacon of him Self & his Wife taken before
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Sr.
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John Ward
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To prove the fact as above}
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William Lawrence
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Elizabeth Lawrence
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To prove the Deft. hands to the Patrimony & that
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they vouched Wm. Lawrence to be the Son of Thomas}
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Thomas Hatton
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To Prove the
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VouchingMr
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Samuel Briggs
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