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<p n="1068"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo755">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1068-1">George Bremner</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo756">the<lb></lb>
Strand</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ251">Bookseller</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1068-2">Thomas Squires</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
the Milne Scotland Yard, taken Upon Oath<lb></lb>
before me this 27th. day of April 1784</p>
<p n="1069"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1069-1">George Bremner</rs>
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Saith that on the 19th. of this Instant April<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1069-2">John Griffin</rs>
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recommended Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1069-3">Thomas Squires</rs>
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to him<lb></lb>
to discount a Promissory Note, and Mr. Squires Recommended<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1069-4">John Burnell</rs>
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the Prisoner to him this Informant, Mr. Squire<lb></lb>
Mr. Burnell and this Informant met at the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ252">Treasurer Coffee<lb></lb>
House</rs>
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there being a great deal of Company there no Business<lb></lb>
was done the Prisoner Burnell Pulling out of his Pocket book<lb></lb>
a Number of Seemingly Bank Notes this Informant thought<lb></lb>
the Business was to be done these but the Prisoner proposed going<lb></lb>
to another <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo757">Coffee House</rs>
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accordingly they went to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo758">Tilt Yard<lb></lb>
Coffee House</rs>
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, the Prisoner then Proposed going to a Cellar in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo759">Spring Gardens</rs>
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, in the said Cellar this Informant Pulled out<lb></lb>
to his Pockett a Promissary Note of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1069-5">John Walker</rs>
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for the Value<lb></lb>
of forty one Pounds fifteen Shillings Payable to this deponent<lb></lb>
this Informant Endorsed the said Note in the Presence of the<lb></lb>
Prisoner and Mr. Squires and gave it over the Table into the<lb></lb>
Stands of the Prisoner who was to give Cash for the said<lb></lb>
Note Immediately to this Informant, Immediately the<lb></lb>
Prisoner put the Note into his Pockett, went to the door and<lb></lb>
went off without giving any Value for the said Note</p>
<p n="1070"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1070-1">Thomas Squires</rs>
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Saith that he was Present at the above<lb></lb>
Transactions and Understood the Prisoner was going to</p>
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