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<p n="1317"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesx To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n1317-1">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45022_date176">21st. day of March 1774</rs>
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<p n="1318">Who being upon Oath says that about three Weeks ago he accepted<lb></lb>
two Bills of Exchange drawn upon him<del>by</del>
payable to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n1318-1">Michael<lb></lb>
Watkinson</rs>
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or Order the one for five hundred pounds and the other<lb></lb>
for three hundred pounds and on trusted them with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n1318-2">Thomas Watkinson</rs>
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now present to get discounted, that as a collateral Security (in<lb></lb>
case he should not pay the Bills when due) he also executed a<lb></lb>
Warrant of Attorney to confess a Judgement to Michael Watkinson<lb></lb>
for eight hundred pounds, that a Defeasance was wrote on<lb></lb>
the same Sheet of Paper with the said Warrant of Attorney<lb></lb>
purporting that the said Warrant of Attorney should not be<lb></lb>
put in force unless the said Bills of Exchange should not<lb></lb>
he paid when due, that an Execution in lately brought into<lb></lb>
this Informant's house for eighteen hundred and fifty five<lb></lb>
pounds, that this Informant has lately seen a Warrant of<lb></lb>
Attorney to confess a Judgmt for eighteen hundred and<lb></lb>
fifty five pounds purporting to be this Informants Warrant<lb></lb>
of Attorney, that he does verily believe that the said Thomas<lb></lb>
Watkinson has felonioulsy falsely made forged and<lb></lb>
counterfeited the said Deed purporting to be this<lb></lb>
Informants Warrant of Attorney to confess a Judgement for eighteen hundred<lb></lb>
and fifty five pounds with Intention to defraud</p>
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