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Thomas Wilkin< no role > Clerk to Robert Pakenham< no role > now Charged in the Goale
of Newgate for altering an Army Debenture maketh Oath that Mary
Gilliard
< no role > late Servant to the said Pakenham coming to his house in London
from Shacklewell in the County of Middx where his Master had an
Apartment in or about the Month of June last past pulled out of her
Breast an Army Debenture which she shewed to this Deponent and told
this Dept she was to Deliver the Same to Mr Bland meaning Mr John
Bland
< no role > of Lombard street Goldsmith And this Dept Offered to Carry the
sd Debenture unto the sd Bland But the said Mary Gilliard made
Answer that her Master bid her Deliver it into Bland's own hands
And that therefore sayd she would Deliver it herself in her way to
Market where she sayd she was Shortly going And this Dept Saith
that she at her retorne from Market told this Dept she had Delivered
the sd Debenture unto the sd Bland and this Dept saith that on Saturday
the Twenty ninth Day of September last past the Goods of the said
Pakenham at his house in London were taken in Execuson by the said
Bland about Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of the same day & that
about Eight of the Clock in the Evening of the same Day the sd Bland
came into a Room up two pair of Stairs in the said House where this
Deponent was writing upon the Escrutore & asked him this Depont
what he was doing & what there was in the Escrutore to which this Dept
made Answer there were Papers of Consequence and thereupon the
said Bland took the Keys of the sd Escrutore from this Dept rifled the
papers & took with him the Keys & had them in his Possion till Monday
having severall times gone into the Room where the sd Escrutore was
by himself as this Dept hath heard & verily believes to be true whereby
he had Oppertunity of taking thereout what papers he thought fit and
Saith that the sd Escrutore was a private Escrutore of his Masters
where he usually kept his papers & writings of most Consequence And this
Depont Saith that the sd Mary Gilliard< no role > went from his said Master's
Service about a Month Since to Some place about One Hundred Miles
Distant from London as this Dept hath heard her Say & believes and
that this Dept and other by his masters Direccons have Endeavoured
as much as possible to find her or know where she was but have not been
yet able so to do And this Dept Believes the sd Mary Gilliard< no role > to be a very
Materiall Witness for his said Master on his Tryall for the matters with
which he now Stands Charged and this Dept Saith that the sd Mr Pakenham is
now and for some days past hath been extreamly Ill & now keeps his Bed by reason
of such illness.

Jurat nono die Octobris 1722
coram me.

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Tho Wilkin< no role >

lect in Cur




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