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 of the 2d of January laſt, and two of the Saturday before, which Mr. Francklin order'd his Servant to ſerve him with, and it was done accordingly, and he gave them 'Half-a-Crown, and had a Shilling given him as Change, he farther depos'd, that Mr. Francklin ask'd him if he ſold them again, and that he told him he did.

Here was a palpable Variation, either from the Truth, or an Overſight of the Council for the Defendant, for eight Journals to a Man that ſells them again, comes to but 1 s. and if he had not bought them for Sale, he muſt then have paid but ſixteenpence for them.

This Evidence, Smith, farther depos'd, That he ſold one of the ſix Journals which he had bought as abovemention'd, to one John Ibbot, at the Six-Canus Alehouſe in Holbourn; and a Journal being produced, he was interrogated whether that was it; to which he reply'd, it was.

The Council for the Defendant ask'd him, how he knew it to be one of the ſix he had bought at Mr.Francklin's, and whether or no he had mark'd it? to which he ſaid, he had mark'd it, and was ſure it was one of the ſix.

John Ibbot depoſed, That he bought one of the ſaid Journals of the aforeſaid Evidence, Smith, at the Six Canus in Holbourn. That he likewiſe had bought another of the ſaid Journals of one Mrs. Dewel, who gave it him from behind the Compter of Mrs. Dodd, at the Peacock without Temple Bar. He was asked by Mr. Fazakerly, one of the Council for Mr. Francklin, if he had marked the very individual Paper bought of Mrs. Dewel? and if he was ſure that the Extract of a Private Letter from the Hague, which Mr. Francklin was then trying for, was inſerted in that Craftſman he had bought? To which he