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Image 228 of 25818th November 1765


Middlesex To wit

The Information of Thomas Fellows< no role > of
White Horse Yard near Drury Lane
Woollen Draper taken before us [..] this 18th.
day of November 1765

Who being upon Oath says that a Bill of exchange now produced
was on or about the 13th. day of May last, purporting to be the Bill
of Exchange of William Horsley< no role > upon Elizabeth Merryman< no role > in favour
of James Hamilton< no role > dated Bristol May the 6th. 1765 for £5..6..10 Published to the
Informant by a Person now Present who calls himself James
Hamilton
< no role > as a True Bill, and for and as the True Bill of Exchange
of one william Horsley< no role > Grocer in Bristol , and at the same time
pretending that the said Bill was sent to him the said James Hamilton< no role >
from Bristol for goods he had sent down there as value for it to said
Horsley a Grocer, Further says that he verily believes the said Bill
to be a false and Forged Bill [..] of Exchange and that it was published
to this Informant by said Hamilton [..] knowingitit to be so
with Intent to Cheat and Defraud this Informants

Sworn before us the day and
Year first above writen}

Tho: Fellows< no role >

[..]

21st. Novr. 1765 Mr. Fellows Swears that, amongst other reasons for his believing
Hamilton Intended to Defraud him when he Published the Bill is, sd. Hamilton's
having attempted to set aside the Judgement in the C: of Kings Bench




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