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Barber
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taken before Me one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
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County aforesaid
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Who being on Oath severally say as follows
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And
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That on Sunday was Seven night
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Catharine Lindon
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being at this Informant
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James Witherspoones
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Shop produced a Poster
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Bank bill in the presence of these Informants and
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William Blacket
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Thomas Yeats
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said Catharine Lindon held the same up in her hand and Shewed it to this Informants and
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the said other persons And the said Dorothy for herself
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severally
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Saith that this Informant
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is positive that it was a Twenty pound bill And thinks and verily beleives that the
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Word Post was
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in large Characters upon the Upper part of the said bill And saith
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that She doth not recollect the Name of the Person to whom the said Bill was Payable
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Catherine
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Lindon
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asking if
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anybody knew where She could it discounted the said
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Blacket then answered that he knew one Levi a Jew in
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Dukes Place
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that would
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discount it five Shillings in the Pound And these Informants further Severally Say
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that the said
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Catharine Lindon
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being at this Informant
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James Witherspoones
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said
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Shop again last night the discourse of discounting the said Post bill was received
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discount
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discounted by one Levi a Jew
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And this Informant
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James Witherspoone
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for himself further Saith that this
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Informant and the said
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Catharine Lindon
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and the said Blacket set out from this
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Informants in Order to go to the said Levi to get the said Bill discounted but this
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Informant and the said Lindon & Blacket going into an Alehouse on
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Saffron hill
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to
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drink Blacket then Objects agt going to said Levis then for he was not at home
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And there upon said that one Mr. Morgan
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would discount Whereupon this Informant
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and the said Blacket and Lindon went to the said Morgans house And the said
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Morgan in this Informants hearing offered to lend five Guineas on the said Bill
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but on asking the said
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some Questions afterwards declared he
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would have nothing to do with it
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Dorothy Witherspoon
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Both Sworn the
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20th. day of
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December 1756
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before Me
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Saunder Welch
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