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Image 63 of 28018th January 1772


London to wit

The Information of Anthony Ten Brocke< no role >
of Lanethorn Court Little Bell Alley Coleman Street
London Book keeper to Messrs. Peter< no role > & Richard
Mintman
< no role > of Broad Street London Merchants ,
taken before me William Nash< no role > Esq . Mayor
of the City of London and one for His Majesty's
Justices of the Peace in and for the said City
of London this 18 day of January 1772

Who being upon Oath saith that John Vestenburg< no role > of
Austin Friars London Merchant come on Wednesday
Morning last to the door of Messrs. Peter and Richard
Mintman's Counting House and called to this Informant
and upon this Informants coming to him the said
John Vestenburg< no role > desired this Informant to go home with
him when this Informant told the said John Vestenburg< no role >
that the said John Vestenburg< no role > pressed him this Informant
very much, so that this Informant went to the said
John Vestenburgs House in the space of a quarter of
an hour afterward, where he the said John Vestenburg< no role > told
this Informant, that Thomas Wood< no role > now a Prisoner
in the Poultry Counter, had done something very
bad for that he had forged or Draft on the Bank
of try land, to which this Informant expressed his
Concern upon such information, and traped it would
not turn out so strocking, which he should he glad
to hear of and would call at the Antigallian Coffee
house at Change time when he desired the said
John Vestenburg< no role > to acquaint him this Informant
if he the said John Vestenburg< no role > should hear any
thing more of that affair, that during this
Informants nay at the said John Vestenburg< no role > 's
House he did observe that the said John Vestenburg< no role >
appeared much concerned and confused and not
in his usual manner of behaviour and that
during the Conversation between them, this
Informant did mention to the said John
Vestenburg, that this matter might revive
the affair of the year one thousand seven hundred
and sixty five upon which the said John Vestenburg< no role > 's
confusion seemed rather increased, and this Informant
saith that between one and two o'Clock in the
afternoon at likewise in the Evening of the




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