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<p n="2236"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1264">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2236-1">Thomas Knight</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2236-2">John<lb></lb>
Peaskead</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45023_date141">14th. day of October 1775</rs>
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<p n="2237">Who being upon Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2237-1">Thomas Knight</rs>
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for himself says that on the 24th or 25th. of May last a Bank Post<lb></lb>
Bill for twenty five pounds now produced was stolen from him<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo1265">Greyhound Inn in Southwark</rs>
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and that the said Bank Post<lb></lb>
Bill at that Time was not indorsed with the Name <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2237-2">John Peaskead</rs>
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as it now appears to be; and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2237-3">John Peaskead</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
says that he received the above mentioned Bank Post Bill by<lb></lb>
the Post from Mr. Mott in May last but never wrote the Indorsement<lb></lb>
thereon which is now wrote on the Same and that he hath<lb></lb>
since been informed by his Wife and verily believes that his<lb></lb>
Wife paid the same Bank Post Bill to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2237-4">Thomas Knight</rs>
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<del>and the said</del>
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<del>for himself says that he has</del>
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<p n="2240"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2240-1">Thomas Knight</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n2240-2">John Peaskead</rs>
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