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for certain trespasses and contempts brought against him the said Edward Aylett in the king's court, before the king himself. And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, further present, that in the term of the Holy Trinity, in the 24th year aforesaid, a certain cause was depending in the court of Chancery of our said lord the king, in which said cause Roger Moore and Jane his wife were plaintiffs, and the said Edward Aylett and also James Frith, William Dickins, Mary Hill, William Bayntun, Mary Elliott, Charles Pearce, Elizabeth Jane, Howell Shepherd widow, Caroline Louisa, Howell Shepherd, and Nathaniel Cotes, were defendants; and such proceedings were thereupon afterwards had in the said court of [533] Chancery in the said cause, that afterwards, to wit, on the 4th day of August, in the 24th year aforesaid, at Lincoln's Inn, in the said county of Middlesex, in a certain hall there called Lincoln's Inn Hall, the said cause came on to be heard before Edward Lord Thurlow Baron Thurlow of Ashfield, in the county of Suffolk, then and still being lord high chancellor of Great Britain, for further directions, interest, and costs, and as to the matter of exceptions taken by the said plaintiffs to the report of Edward Leeds Esq. then being one of the masters of the said court, dated the 3d day of July 1784; and the said cause was then and there heard, as to the said matter of exceptions, before the said Edward Lord Thurlow, the said lord high chanceller of Great Britain; and that the said Edward Aylett, then being one of the solicitors of the said court of Chancery, attending the hearing of the said cause as solicitor for himself, as one of the said defendants in the said cause, And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, further present, that after the hearing of the said cause, and before the return of the said writ, to wit, on the said 4th day of August, in the 24th year aforesaid, the said Matthew Lenard, in the said warrant named, then being one of the bailiffs of the said sheriff of the county of Middlesex aforesaid for the hundred of Ossulston aforesaid, by virtue of the writ and warrant aforesaid, at the parish of St. Martin in the Fields, within the hundred aforesaid, in the county of Middlesex aforesaid, did duly take and arrest the said Edward Aylett, to answer to our said lord the king, according to the command of the writ and warrant aforesaid; and he the said Matthew Lenard, then being one of the bailiffs aforesaid, then and there had the said Edward Aylett in the custody of him the said Matthew Lenard, by virtue of the writ and warrant aforesaid. And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, further present, that after the said Edward Aylett was so in the custody of him the said Matthew Lenard, to wit, on the said 4th day of August, in the 24th year aforesaid, a certain complaint was made for and on the behalf of the said Edward Aylett, to the said Edward Lord Thurlow, then and still being lord high chancellor of Great Britain; and then being in the said court of Chancery, then held at Lincoln's Inn aforesaid, in the said county of Middlesex, in the said hall there called Lincoln's Inn Hall; that he the said Edward Aylett was so taken, and arrested by the said Matthew Lenard, on his the said Edward Aylett's way from the said hall, called Lincoln's Inn Hall, after the said cause was heard as aforesaid, to his the said Edward Aylett's own house, situate in the parish of St. Martin in the Fields aforesaid, in the said county of Middlesex: and the said Edward Aylett afterwards, to wit, on the said 4th day of August, in the 24th year aforesaid, did appear, in his proper person, before the said Edward Lord Thurlow, the said lord high chancellor of Great Britain, then being in the said court of Chancery, then held at Lincoln's [534] Inn aforesaid, in the said county of Middlesex, in the said hall there called Lincoln's Inn Hall, in the custody of the said Matthew Lenard, to be examined touching the said complaint, then and there to be heard; and it then and there became, and was a material question, on the hearing of the said complaint, before the said Edward Lord Thurlow, the said lord high chancellor of Great Britain, whether the said Edward Aylett was taken and arrested by the said Matthew Lenard as aforesaid, on his the said Edward Aylett's way from Lincoln's Inn aforesaid, in the said county of Middlesex, after the said cause was heard as aforesaid, to his the said Edward Aylett's own house, situate in the Haymarket, in the said parish of St. Martin in the Fields, in the county aforesaid. And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, further present, that the said Edward Aylett, at and upon the hearing of the said complaint, to wit, on the said 4th day of August, in the 24th year aforesaid, at Lincoln's Inn aforesaid, in the said county, in the said hall there called Lincoln's Inn Hall, in the said court of Chancery, then and there held before the said Edward Lord Thurlow,