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<p n="2308"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo1108">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2308-1">Robt. Dent</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ342">Esqr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
taken before me this 18th. day of Novr. 1768</p>
<p n="2309">Who being on Oath says that on Wednesday the 16: Instant a Person<lb></lb>
who called himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2309-1">Cary Emms</rs>
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published to this Informant at the<lb></lb>
House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2309-2">Robert Child</rs>
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Esqr. near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo1109">Temple Bar</rs>
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London<obscured></obscured>
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a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Bill of Exchange now produced purporting to be the Bill of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2309-3">Robt.<lb></lb>
Pigott</rs>
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for the Sum of Fifty pounds upon Esquire Child and Company<lb></lb>
payable to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2309-4">Cary Emms</rs>
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or Order and which said Bill of Exchange<lb></lb>
said Emms told this Informant he received from a Mrs. Barnett who<lb></lb>
then Lodged in his House at the Green Canister in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo1110">Phoenix Court<lb></lb>
Lang acre</rs>
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and then shewed this Informt a Letter now produced<lb></lb>
purporting to be a Letter to Mrs. Barnett from <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2309-5">Robt. Pigott</rs>
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dated <lb></lb>
Novr. 14: 1768 with the aforesaid Draft annexed to its and their Informt.<lb></lb>
further says that he does verily believe that the aforesaid Bill of<lb></lb>
Exchange is falsly made Forged and Counterfeited and that it<lb></lb>
was Published knowing it to be so with Intent to Defraud this<lb></lb>
Informant and his other Partners, and farther says that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2309-6">Cary Emms</rs>
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also on the 2d. of Novr. last published to this Informant<lb></lb>
as true another Bill of Exchange now produced purporting to be the<lb></lb>
Bill of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2309-7">Robt. Pigott</rs>
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for £50 payable to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2309-8">Cary<lb></lb>
Emms</rs>
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or Order and says he paid the last mentioned sum of<lb></lb>
£50 and verily believes the said last described Bill also to be<lb></lb>
falsely made Forged and Counterfeited and that it was published<lb></lb>
knowing it to be so with Intent to Defraud as aforesaid and<lb></lb>
this Informant further Says that he does suspect and verily believe that<lb></lb>
a person now present who calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2309-9">Mary Barnet</rs>
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otherwise Wright<lb></lb>
was concerned in the said Publications</p>
<p n="2310">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
November 18. 1768}</p>
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<p n="2312"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2312-1">Robt Dent</rs>
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