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on the Crown side of this Honourable Court was made, on the part of the Several Defendants, or some or one of them, to such Bill of Indictment, in order that such Indictment might be quashed for insufficiency, and that such Motion was allowed, on or about the said fifth day of July following; and the said several Defendants to such Bill of Indictment, who had upon the finding thereof been taken into Custody, were thereupon set at liberty, as in the said Bill of Complaint mentioned, which said quashing and which release of the said Several Defendants this Defendant admits to have been before the Trial of such Indictment but whether or not before the time that the said Indictment could or might have been brought in to be heard upon the Merits, this Defendant cannot Setforth. And this Defendant further answering says that she does not know nor can she setforth whether or not, before the time of making the aforesaid Motion, or before such Indictment was so quashed, the said Grand Jury for the then Sessions had been discharged, so that no other Indictment could be preferred against the said Defendants to such aforesaid Bill of Indictment untill the then next ensuing Sessions, which this Defendant admits were not to Commence untill the fourth of December then next following; and this Defendant says that she does not know what Witnesses the Prosecutor migh have