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The Information of
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taken before me this 18th. day of Novr. 1768
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Who being on Oath says that on Wednesday the 16: Instant a Person
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published to this Informant at the
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House of
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Esqr. near
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London
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a
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Bill of Exchange now produced purporting to be the Bill of
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Pigott
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for the Sum of Fifty pounds upon Esquire Child and Company
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payable to the said
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Cary Emms
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or Order and which said Bill of Exchange
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said Emms told this Informant he received from a Mrs. Barnett who
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then Lodged in his House at the Green Canister in
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Lang acre
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and then shewed this Informt a Letter now produced
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purporting to be a Letter to Mrs. Barnett from
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dated
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Novr. 14: 1768 with the aforesaid Draft annexed to its and their Informt.
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further says that he does verily believe that the aforesaid Bill of
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Exchange is falsly made Forged and Counterfeited and that it
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was Published knowing it to be so with Intent to Defraud this
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Informant and his other Partners, and farther says that the said
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also on the 2d. of Novr. last published to this Informant
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as true another Bill of Exchange now produced purporting to be the
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Bill of the said
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for £50 payable to the said
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Cary
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or Order and says he paid the last mentioned sum of
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£50 and verily believes the said last described Bill also to be
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falsely made Forged and Counterfeited and that it was published
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knowing it to be so with Intent to Defraud as aforesaid and
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this Informant further Says that he does suspect and verily believe that
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a person now present who calls herself
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Mary Barnet
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otherwise Wright
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was concerned in the said Publications
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Sworn before me
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November 18. 1768}
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Robt Dent
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