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The Information of Cary Emms< no role > of Phoenix
Alley Longacre Chandler< no role > taken before me
this 24: day of Novr. 1768

Who being upon Oath says that he has known Mary Barnett< no role > alias
Wright now in Custody between two and three Years most of which time
She hath lodged in Informant's House, says soon after She first came
to Lodge with this Informant Robt. Pigott< no role > Esqr . Visited her that believes
said Mr. Pigott continued in London he paid said Barnet several Sums
of Money some of which went thro this Informant's hands by Notes
of the hand of the said Mr. Pigott< no role > and afterwards when in the Country
he remitted her several Sum generally Ten pounds at a time by
Draft upon his Banker Messrs. Child & Co. Temple Barr which
Drafts he always desined Informant wou'd receive for the use of
the said Barnet, that in October last a Letter came by the general
Post and in the usual way directed to the said Mrs. Barnet at his House
purporting to be a Letter from the aforesaid Mr. Pigott with a Draft
for £50 Annexed for the said Barnett's use upon the same Bankers
but made payable to this Informant or Order used which he received
and applied accordingly that he took in the said Letter from the Post
to the best of his recollection And this Informant father says that
last Tuesday Senight another Letter came by Post in the same way
purporting to come form said Mr. Pigott which his Wife recd. from
the Postman and that he delivered it unopened to said Barnett at
which time Thomas Grindal< no role > the Jeweller who hath for along time been
intimate with said Mrs. Barnet was present says he afterwards
found that this Letter had annexed to it a Draft for £50 drawn as
before that he saw Barnet out it off and that on her delivering it to
him to receive he went with it accordingly to Messrs. Child's for payment
and was stopt as a Person uttering a forged Bill

Sworn before me
24th. Novr. 1768}

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Cary Emms< no role >




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