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<p n="2379">September 1799.</p>
<p n="2380">my Memory as to the Words only it was not strong<lb></lb>
enough - if he was continued in Goal it might Cost<lb></lb>
him his Life.. Mr.. Estcourt told me it was not strong<lb></lb>
enough, - , <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55611_n2380-1">Evan Evans</rs>
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is in Town is at his<lb></lb>
Sisters who keeps the Fox at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1639">Hungerford Market</rs>
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I saw him on Sunday I called there this Morning<lb></lb>
he had not gone out about 10 Minutes I called<lb></lb>
for the purpose of bringing him with me he told<lb></lb>
me he had not been sent to by <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55611_occ923">Clerk of the peace</rs>
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otherwise I do not doubt he would have come;<lb></lb>
I do not know who applied to the Doctor of the<lb></lb>
Prison for Evan's Pardon I never heard who took<lb></lb>
it to the Duke of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1640">Portlands</rs>
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or how it came there<lb></lb>
I came forward to Mr.. Nares in Consequence of a<lb></lb>
Conversation arising at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1641">Guildhall</rs>
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under a Comms<lb></lb>
of Bankruptcy - I saw Mr.. Raven several times<lb></lb>
from the last Certificate being left and Pardon<lb></lb>
obtained I called at the Office of Duke of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1642">Portland</rs>
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and asked Mr.. Raven if he had heard any thing<lb></lb>
from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1643">Stamp Office</rs>
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relative to Evans - he said<lb></lb>
there was a Pardon Ordered for him and that<lb></lb>
it was gone down to the King; -</p>
<p n="2381">The first time I saw Raven after Certificate<lb></lb>
being left at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1644">Stamp Office</rs>
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was the next Evening<lb></lb>
or within 1. or 2. Evenings dont recollect I had<lb></lb>
any Conversation, - I told him I had left Certificate<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1645">Stamp Office</rs>
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and he said if Commissioners<lb></lb>
were inclinable to forgive him he did not doubt<lb></lb>
but that he would come to the Dukes Office as a<lb></lb>
matter of course; - I told him the Certificate<lb></lb>
stated he was in a bad state of Health, - Evans<lb></lb>
did not appear to be ill I believe he was not ill<lb></lb>
but Evans told me had taken no Food for 2 Days<lb></lb>
in Order to prepare himself for the Doctor to make<lb></lb>
himself low for the Doctors Examination I went<lb></lb>
and told him to prepare himself; - I think he was<lb></lb>
very well he appeared very well when he came out<lb></lb>
I did not see him after he had so starved himself</p>
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