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<p n="127"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London ss</note>
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The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n127-1">Elizabeth Davies</rs>
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for a Fraud</p>
<p n="128"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n128-1">John Jacomb</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo103">Gracechurch Street</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ44">Linen Draper</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that the above named Defendant was Yesterday the 22d Instant<lb></lb>
Committed to Newgate by Mr. Alderman Wright on a Charge of<lb></lb>
having unlawfully defrauded this Deponent and his Partners<lb></lb>
of a Piece of Irish Linen and a piece of Muslin And this Deponent<lb></lb>
saith that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n128-2">John Cressey</rs>
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of Lawrence Lane London Warehouseman<lb></lb>
is as this Deponent is informed and believes a material Witness<lb></lb>
against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n128-3">Elizabeth Davis</rs>
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for such Offence and without whose<lb></lb>
testimony this Deponent cannot proceed to Prefer a Bill of Indictment<lb></lb>
or to the Trial of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n128-4">Elizabeth Davis</rs>
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for such Offence And this<lb></lb>
Deponent saith the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n128-5">John Cressey</rs>
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<del>in said in the County of<lb></lb>
Lounshire</del>
about a Fortnight since (long before the said Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Davis was taken into Custody which happened on Wednesday Night<lb></lb>
last) went from his Dwelling in London into the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo104">Lancaster</rs>
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in Business and is not yet returned And this Deponent<lb></lb>
further saith that he hath no doubt but the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n128-7">John Cressey</rs>
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will<lb></lb>
return and attend at the next Session and give Evidence against<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n128-8">Elizabeth Davis</rs>
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for the said Offence.</p>
<p n="129">Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo105">Justice Hall in the Old Bailey</rs>
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within the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo106">Saint Sepulchre</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Word of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo107">Farringdon</rs>
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without London this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15098_date22">23d day of February 1787</rs>
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<p n="130">By the Court</p>
<p n="131"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n131-1">Jno Jacomb</rs>
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