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9th September 1777 - 27th May 1779

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the said Robert Allen< no role > and James Milbourne< no role > together two other
Bank Notes (but which of them produced than he cannot say) viz
one for £40 No. 212 payable to Child dated the 21st of May
1778, the other for £10 No. 222 payable to Brooks bank and
dated the 2nd. of April 1778. Says that he got Cash for the said
£40 Note of Mr. Laws Baker in Cow Cross and for the said
£10 Note of Mr. Fenton in Cloth Fair . Says that he made an
Entry of the description of the five last mentioned Bank Notes
immediately after he had received them from the said Allen and
Millbourne. but did not of the six first mentioned. Says that
on the 13th of June the said Robert Allen< no role > confessed to this Informants
that himself and the said James Milbourne< no role > had broke open the Woollens
Drapers house opposite Hatton Garden in Holborn and could have
brought away as much Goods as they could carry but that they
had taken nothing but Notes and Cash and that the Robbery was
then adontired in the Newspaper but the Notes were not described
That on the 28th of June the said Robert Allen< no role > also told this Informant
that the Money which was found in a Shee in Mr. Milbourne's Room
was a part of the Money which they had taken and of the said
Woolen Drapers house, and the 39 Guineas found upon the
person of Isaac Voteer< no role > was also taken from there and was
a part of the said Milbourne's share of the booty. That both
the said Allen and Milbourne on the 28th of June told this Informant
that there was Bank Notes to the amount of £160 and one hundred




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