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The Information of
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taken before me this 3rd. Day of May 1784.
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says that
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Samuel Acton
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Distiller
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in
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Drury Lane
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That on the 22nd. of March last
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Stephen Tissington
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of the
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Plough
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at
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paid this Informant at this House
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aforesaid the Sum of Five Pounds
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in Part of Payment of £56..15..0. in which sum at that time Prisoners
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to the said Payment of Five Pound of he stood Indebted to the said
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Samuel Acton
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That whom said Tissington paid this Informant
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the said Five pounds, this Informant gave him the Receipt
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now produced except that the principal Sum was then Five
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Pounds and not Fifty Pounds which now appears; and
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that the Figures were then £5.0.0 and not £50.0.0
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which now appear on the said Receipt And further says that
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the principal Sum of the said Receipt has been attered and
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forged since this Informant gave it to said Tissington as aforesaid
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And the said
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says that on the 1st. Day of May
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Instant this Informant received the Receipt now produced & as it
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now appears, from the said
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who, at that
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time told this Informant that he had paid the said
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Joseph
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Acton
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Fifty Pounds. And further says he doth believe
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and suspect that the said
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hath attend forged and
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Counterfeited the Principal Sum of the said Receipt from Five Pounds
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to Fifty, and that he published it to this Informant knowing it to
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have been so attered forged and counterfeited.
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Sworn before me this 3rd. Day
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of May 1784}
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Addington
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Joseph Acton
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