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For the Deft.
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The King agt.
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Abraham Isaac
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on the Prosecution of
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Anthony Wells
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About the month of July last the Deft. having some words with his Wife
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in his own House the prosecutor Stopping at Defendants House & being Curious & Inquisitibe
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to know & see what
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was done & what would be the Event & Consequence of what
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had happened between the Defendant & his wife the Defendt. happened to last an
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Eye & see the prosecutor peeping at his Window & looking in upon him went out to
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him & in a Civil manner requested him to go about his Business which the prosecutor
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refusing to do the Defendt. might give him a Little push without doing him any
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damage whereupon the prosecutor being a man of Courage resented it, & Imediately
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Struch the Defendt. & thereupon a Little Skermish Ensued.
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Soon after the next day or the day after the
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Deft.
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was in Company with one
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who works for the Deft. & seem'd
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inclinable to Drink with the Deft. in order to Accommodate this little Skirmish
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when the Prosecutor then declared that he had been Ill for sometime with a
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Violent pain in his Breast on which he were a
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& that he wod do the Deft.
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that Justice that he had never Struck him on his Breast, for might if he
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had been of Bad Consequence, this Depont. did not
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perceive
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of that the prosecutor had received any the least damage, nor does this Depont.
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believe that he was hurt the Prosecutor not Complaining of any Ill
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In July last the Deft. was Served with a Copy of a Bill of
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at the Plts. Suit ret on the
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24th. of this Instant Octr
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. & the prosecutor has declared that he
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never Saw or knew the Deft. or had any Dealing with him before this Small affray &
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therefore whether the Deft. shall thus be harrass'd with an Accon in the Court of Kings
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Bench & stand Indicted in this Court for one & the Same Offence. should not the
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Prosecutor now make his Election in which Court he will proceedr.
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Notice has been regularly given to appear & plead Guilty to the
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Indictment lately preferr'd by the Prosecutor against the Defendant which Mr. Moore who
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for the Prosecutor will admit, your Endeavours therefore must be to
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Entenuate & Sessen the Fine now to be Insticted on the Defendant.
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