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23rd January 1786 - 18th December 1786

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Samuel Feming< no role > of Islington in the County of Middlesex Gentleman
Secretary to the Governors and Directions of the Royal Exchange Assurance
Company London and Tilman Henkell< no role > of Church Row Fenchurch
Street London Gentleman life accountant and Chief Clerk to the said
Governors and Directors in the life Assurance Office each speaking for
himself severally make oath And first this Deponent Tilman Henkell
for himself saith that on or about the second day of June last past
Marmaduke Teasdale< no role > of Caddicks Row Money Scrivener applied to
this Deponent as life accountant or Chief Clerk in the life insurance
office of the said Company to cause an insurance to be made or
the lives of two persons whom the said Teasdale produced to him this
Deponent by the names of John Campbell< no role > Esqr . Lieutenant on half
pay in the third Battalion of the sixtieth Regiment of Foot and
William Ross Darby< no role > Ensign in the said Regiment who were both
before unknown to this Deponent and saith that some few days after
such application he was directed by the Governors and Directors of the
said Company in consequence as this Deponent was then informed
and verily believes of request made to them by Sir Sampson Wright< no role >
to attend at the Public Office in Bow Street respecting a charge made
against persons by the names of John Campbell< no role > and William Ross
Darby
< no role > who this Deponent understood were the above named John
Campbell
< no role > and William Ross Darby and accordingly on or about the
fifteenth day of the said month of June he this Deponent attended at
the Public office in Bow Street and was then informed by some of the
Majistrates there that the said Campbell was charged with a forgery
on the said Teasdale and the said Darby was also charged as being aiding
and abetting in the same and several person being let into the room to
this Deponent he was asked whether he this Deponent saw either of them
the said Campbell or Derby amongst the persons in the room and this
Deponent recollected one of the two persons whom he had seen with the
said Marmaduke Teasdale< no role > and whose name he was informed was
John Campbell< no role > but not the other person and this Deponent was by the




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