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<p n="479"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo209">Middlesex</rs>
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and <lb></lb>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n479-1">Samuel Pritchard</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo211">Oxford Street</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint George<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo212">Hanover Square</rs>
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Stable Keeper taken before<lb></lb>
me this 9th. day of February 1772</p>
<p n="480">Who being upon Oath Says that in the latter End of August last or<lb></lb>
the Beginning of September <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n480-1">James Bolland</rs>
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(who as this Informant has been<lb></lb>
told is now a Prisoner in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo213">the Poultry</rs>
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Compter) came to his house & observing<lb></lb>
that both this Informant and himself wanted Money proposed that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n480-2">Robert<lb></lb>
Storer</rs>
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who was this Informant's Clerk should copy over some Bills of Exchange<lb></lb>
which the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n480-3">James Bolland</rs>
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produced in his own Hand writing as Copies for<lb></lb>
the Said Bills of Exchange to be drawn from, some of which Copies are now produced that the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n480-4">James Bolland</rs>
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Said he could as well get Bills for £400 discounted at his Banker's as<lb></lb>
for £100 and that this Informant might have the Use of part of the Money,<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n480-5">Robert Storer</rs>
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accordingly wrote a Bill of Exchange now<lb></lb>
produced purporting to be the Bill of Exchange of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n480-6">William Perryn</rs>
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<del>payable</del>
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on Mr. St. Pritchard <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo214">Oxford Street</rs>
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London for fifty two pounds ten Shillings<lb></lb>
payable to Lot Bosomworth Esq. or Order two Months after date and dated Dunstable<lb></lb>
August 19th. 1771, that this Informant<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
accepted the said Bill of<lb></lb>
Exchange and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n480-7">James Bolland</rs>
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took it away, that before the above<lb></lb>
Transaction was completed this Informant objected greatly to the doing of<lb></lb>
it as he was afraid it was not justifiable, that the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n480-8">James Bolland</rs>
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<lb></lb>
told this Informant that there was no harm in it and that he would<lb></lb>
indemnify this Informant, that accordingly the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n480-9">James Bolland</rs>
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either<lb></lb>
at the Time abovementioned or Soon afterwards gave this Informant an<lb></lb>
Indemnification now produced from all Costs and Damages for accepting<lb></lb>
the Said Bill of Exchange and three others amounting in the whole<lb></lb>
to three hundred and twenty five pounds which said three other Bills<lb></lb>
of Exchange were either at the Time abovementioned or about that Time</p>
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