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