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<p n="381"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo268">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n381-1">Thomas Down</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n381-2">John Martin</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n381-3">William Boyce</rs>
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taken before me this 9th.. day<lb></lb>
of January 1784.</p>
<p n="382">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n382-1">Thomas Down</rs>
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says that,<lb></lb>
the Bill of Exchange now produced purporting to be the Bill of Exchange<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n382-2">John Quick</rs>
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, on Mr. Wm. Boyce No. 29 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo269">Swallow Street</rs>
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for the Payment<lb></lb>
of Ten Pounds, to the Order of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n382-3">John Quick</rs>
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, One Month after date<lb></lb>
and dated London Novr. 29th.. 1783, he received of the aforesaid <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n382-4">John<lb></lb>
Martin</rs>
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. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n382-5">John Martin</rs>
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says that on or about Saturday<lb></lb>
the 29th.. of Novemr. last, he received the said Bill of Exchange with<lb></lb>
the Acceptance of WB which now appears on it, from a Person<lb></lb>
now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n382-6">John Quick</rs>
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, who was Indebted<lb></lb>
to this Informant in about £4..7..6, and to whom this Informant<lb></lb>
paid the Difference in Cash. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n382-7">William Boyce</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that the Acceptance of W B which appears on the said Bill<lb></lb>
of Exchange, is not this Informants Hand-writing, nor was<lb></lb>
it wrote with this Informant's privity knowledge or consent,<lb></lb>
but is false forged and counterfieted and believes was published<lb></lb>
as such by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n382-8">John Quick</rs>
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to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n382-9">John Martin</rs>
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with<lb></lb>
Intent to defraud.</p>
<p n="383">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
9th.. day of January 1784}</p>
<p n="384"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n384-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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</p>
<p n="385"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n385-1">Thos. Down</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n385-2">John Martyn</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n385-3">Wm.. Boyce</rs>
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