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<p n="1266">Exparte <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1266-1">Edward Davies</rs>
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& Wilkinson a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ517">Constable</rs>
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<p n="1267"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1288">Old Bailey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Octr. Session<lb></lb>
1786}</note>
<lb></lb>
Mr. Davies in July last was bound by Recogce. to prosecute one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1267-1">Henry Smith</rs>
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for Felony & Wilkinson the Constable was also bound<lb></lb>
by the same Recognizance to give Evidence & the true reasons for not<lb></lb>
prosecuting Smith will appear by the follg. Affidavit worn in Court<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15097_date200">26th. Octr. 1786</rs>
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<p n="1268"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1268-1">Edwd. Davies</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1289">Holborn</rs>
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Bridge in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1290">City of London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ518">Grocer</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1268-2">Geo Evans</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the same place <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ519">Apothecary</rs>
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Sevly make Oath and say & first this Dept. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1268-3">Edwd. Davis</rs>
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for himself saith<lb></lb>
that abt. the latter and of the Month of July last one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1268-4">Henry smith</rs>
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feloniously stole a <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Handkerchief belongs. to this Depts. out of this Depts. pocket at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1291">Holborn Bridge</rs>
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afsd. & the sd. Henry<lb></lb>
Smith being detected in committing such offence woods apprehended & taken into Custody and <lb></lb>
this Dept. saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1268-6">Henry Smith</rs>
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was the next Day examined before the then Sitting<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ520">Aderman</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1292">Guildhall</rs>
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London touching the sd. Felony & was by him committed to one of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1293">the City Compters</rs>
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& this Dept then became bound in a Recogce. to prosecute the sd. Henry<lb></lb>
Smith And this Dept. saith that in the begins. of the Month of Augst. last he this Depts. was<lb></lb>
taken ill with a violent Fever attended with the Ague & from wch fit of illness this Depts.<lb></lb>
hath only recovered within this prevent Month & this Dept. saith that from the time of the<lb></lb>
commencement of his sd. illness until the very Day of his quitting Town as herein after mentd.<lb></lb>
he this Dept. was under the case of the or Dept. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1268-8">Geo Evans</rs>
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as is <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ521">Apothecary</rs>
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when the fever<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a small degree had abated but this Dept. then being in a very weak state of Body occasiones<lb></lb>
by the sd. illness he was advised by the other Dept. & his Friends in general to go into the<lb></lb>
Country for the benefit of the Air in order to re establish his Health & Strength & this<lb></lb>
Dept. saith that under such advice & for such purpose as afsd. & no other he this Dept. quitted<lb></lb>
Londons on Monday the 28th. day of Augst last to go to Margate in the Co. of the Rent at<lb></lb>
which place he remained in a very weak & inform state of Body until the 1st. day of Octr. Inst.<lb></lb>
when this Dept. returned to Town & hoped & believed that he shod. have been in time to prosecute<lb></lb>
the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1268-9">Henry Smith</rs>
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for the sd. Offence with this Dept. fully meant & intended to have done with effect<lb></lb>
accordg. to the tenor of the sd. Recogce. but this Dept. possitively saith that he did not know or believe<lb></lb>
that any Session wod. be held previous to this Depts. returns to London as afsd. And Lastly this Dept.<lb></lb>
saith that the reasons why his prosecuer above mentd. was not carried on with effect was entirely<lb></lb>
owing to the reasons aforesd. & not to any affection or favour Fee or reward had or received or any<lb></lb>
promise of Fee or reward from the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1268-10">Henry Smith</rs>
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or any person or persons on his behalf<lb></lb>
and this Dept. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1268-11">George Evans</rs>
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for himself saith that he this Dept. did attend the other Dept. Edwd.<lb></lb>
Davis as his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ522">Apothecary</rs>
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during his illness above stated until he left Town on the sd. 28th. day of<lb></lb>
Augst last as afsd. when he went to Margate by the advise & with the privity & consent of this<lb></lb>
Dept. it being then & still this Depts. Opinion that the same was absolutely fit & proper towards<lb></lb>
the re establishmt. of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1268-12">Edwd. Davis</rs>
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's health from the Fever & Agree under wch he had then<lb></lb>
lately laboured as before mentd.</p>
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