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<p n="1487"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo998">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1487-1">Joseph Acton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1487-2">Samuel Acton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this 3rd. Day of May 1784.</p>
<p n="1488">Who on their Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1488-1">Joseph Acton</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
he is Servant to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1488-2">Samuel Acton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ357">Distiller</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo999">Drury Lane</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
That on the 22nd. of March last <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1488-3">Stephen Tissington</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1000">Plough<lb></lb>
Alehouse</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1001">Mile end Old Town</rs>
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paid this Informant at this House<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1002">Mile end Old Town</rs>
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aforesaid the Sum of Five Pounds<lb></lb>
in Part of Payment of £56..15..0. in which sum at that time Prisoners<lb></lb>
to the said Payment of Five Pound of he stood Indebted to the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1488-4">Samuel Acton</rs>
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That whom said Tissington paid this Informant<lb></lb>
the said Five pounds, this Informant gave him the Receipt<lb></lb>
now produced except that the principal Sum was then Five<lb></lb>
Pounds and not Fifty Pounds which now appears; and<lb></lb>
that the Figures were then £5.0.0 and not £50.0.0<lb></lb>
which now appear on the said Receipt And further says that<lb></lb>
the principal Sum of the said Receipt has been attered and<lb></lb>
forged since this Informant gave it to said Tissington as aforesaid<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1488-5">Samuel Acton</rs>
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says that on the 1st. Day of May<lb></lb>
Instant this Informant received the Receipt now produced & as it<lb></lb>
now appears, from the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1488-6">Stephen Tissington</rs>
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who, at that<lb></lb>
time told this Informant that he had paid the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1488-7">Joseph<lb></lb>
Acton</rs>
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Fifty Pounds. And further says he doth believe<lb></lb>
and suspect that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1488-8">Stephen Tissington</rs>
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hath attend forged and<lb></lb>
Counterfeited the Principal Sum of the said Receipt from Five Pounds<lb></lb>
to Fifty, and that he published it to this Informant knowing it to<lb></lb>
have been so attered forged and counterfeited.</p>
<p n="1489">Sworn before me this 3rd. Day<lb></lb>
of May 1784}</p>
<p n="1490"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1003">Addington</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1491"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1491-1">Joseph Acton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1491-2">Saml: Acton</rs>
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