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Image 112 of 3819th April 1781


the next Sunday, being the First Day of April Instant
about eleven O'Clock in the Morning, the Prisoner called
upon him, and took a good deal of Gold out of his Pocket
and paid Informant the Guinea he owed himthe
Prisoner brought a Parcel of half-pence, which were
counterfeit, and counted eight Shillings worth, which
Informant took of the Prisoner, and was to pay eight
Shillings for themthe Prisoner came to Informant
the next, being Monday Morning, and he saw the
Prisoner looking in a secret Manner at a Note
Informant said " What have you got a Note there"
and Prisoner answered " Yes, a Bank Note or Bank
Post Bill " or words to that Effect, and Informant
believes the Prisoner said, the Note was for twenty pounds
Informant says, he has seen many Bank Notes, but
never a Bank Post Bill before that dayInformant
upon looking at the Bank Post Bill now produced, says,
that there are several Circumstances which make him
believeNote now producedthe same to be like that which
the prisoner Owen Produced to him, as he recollects the
same [..] was for twenty Pounds, and a Bank Post Bill
or a Bank Note, says he read it twice over and suppose
it to be a Bank post, Bill that on looking over the Bank
post Bill now produced there are several Circumstances
in it that makes him believe it to be like the Note
shewn to him by the prisoner OwenInformant says,
that the reason why he looked at the Bill was, in
order to see in the News Papers whether it was
advertizedthe next Morning after seeing the Note
he looked in a News Paper and did not see it advertized

Says, that he believes on the
Afternoon of the day the Prisoner shewed him the
Note, he called at his House, and said he had been
in the Fields, and had dropt into some Cow Dung
the Prisoner changed his Stockings, and asked for a
Street of PaperInformant got a Sheet of Paper,
and gave the Prisoner half, and his Wife told him,
that the Prisoner turned his back, and appeared to
fold up something by way of LetterSays, that the
Piece of Paper now produced, is part of the Paper the
Prisoner received of himSays, that theClick the
Spinder of the half Sheet he wrote a Bill of Parcels upon a delivered but after hands took
back and keptPaper,for this reason, because he thought at that time




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