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The Information of
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William Boyce
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taken before me this 9th.. day
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of January 1784.
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Who being on Oath say and first the said
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says that,
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the Bill of Exchange now produced purporting to be the Bill of Exchange
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of
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John Quick
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, on Mr. Wm. Boyce No. 29
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Swallow Street
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for the Payment
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of Ten Pounds, to the Order of the said
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John Quick
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, One Month after date
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and dated London Novr. 29th.. 1783, he received of the aforesaid
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John
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Martin
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. And the said
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says that on or about Saturday
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the 29th.. of Novemr. last, he received the said Bill of Exchange with
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the Acceptance of WB which now appears on it, from a Person
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now present who calls himself
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John Quick
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, who was Indebted
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to this Informant in about £4..7..6, and to whom this Informant
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paid the Difference in Cash. And the said
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William Boyce
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says
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that the Acceptance of W B which appears on the said Bill
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of Exchange, is not this Informants Hand-writing, nor was
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it wrote with this Informant's privity knowledge or consent,
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but is false forged and counterfieted and believes was published
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as such by the said
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to the said
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John Martin
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with
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Intent to defraud.
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Sworn before me this
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9th.. day of January 1784}
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Sampn Wright
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Thos. Down
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John Martyn
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Wm.. Boyce
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