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in his own proper handwriting which she
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well knows she having received several Letters from
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And this Informant further saith that about a Week
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ago she saw one Mr. Ward who was Clerk to the same Mr.
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Jacobs and who Inform'd the said
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Mary Jackson
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that
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the said Mr. Jacobs had received a forty pound Note
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payable to this Informant and that the said Mr.
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Jacobs had Indosed his own Name thereupon
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and had paid the said Note away to One
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William
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a Broker in
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Castle Street
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for Money and Go
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Sold deliver'd & Advanced to the said Mr. Jacobs
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by the said
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Wm. Dawson
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upon which this
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Informt. sent her present Attorney
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Mr Barrow
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to Enquire into the Truth of this of Mr Dawson
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the said Mr. Barrow brought backword to this
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Informt. that he had seen the said Note in the
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hands of sd. Mr. Dawson and that her Mark being
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the Mark of her Name had been Indosed on the
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back of the said Note and which said Mark being
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the Mark of her Name so Indosed on the said Note
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she having since seen the said Note is
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a false forged & Counterfeit Indorsment of her Mark
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and Name
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And this Informant upon her said Oath Declareth and
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saith that she verily believes and Suspects that the
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said forged Indorsment of her mark purporting to
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be the Signature of her Name upon the back of the said
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Note was done by the said Mr. Jacobs in the
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own proper hand Writing and without the
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