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<p n="188"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London to wit</note>
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The joint and several Information of Charles<lb></lb>
Smith of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo196">Great Russel Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo197">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Lieutenant of the Goliah Ship of War, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-1">William Cap</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
Petty Pot Lane, London, Clerk of the said Ship<lb></lb>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo198">Mark Lane</rs>
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, London, Clerk and<lb></lb>
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of Bond Court, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-4">Walbrook, London</rs>
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Clerk Who being on Oath severally say And First<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-5">Charles Smith</rs>
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for himself saith, that the<lb></lb>
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at the Bar, now under Examination, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-6">John Brown</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15094_occ98">Seaman</rs>
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on beard the Ship Goliah, when<lb></lb>
the Squadron under the Command of Admiral<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo199">Barrington</rs>
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, in an Engagement off<obscured></obscured>
Brent in the<lb></lb>
Month of<del>October</del>
April last captured several French<lb></lb>
Ships in the Bay of BiseaySays, that the<lb></lb>
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was entered and went by the Name<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-7">John Brown</rs>
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at this timeAnd the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-8">William Clap</rs>
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for himself saith, that in the Cruise<lb></lb>
in the said Bay, there was one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-9">William Richard</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15094_occ100">Seaman</rs>
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on board the said Ship Goliah, who was<lb></lb>
killed in an Engagement off <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo200">Gibraltar</rs>
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in October<lb></lb>
last, and his legal Representative stand entitled<lb></lb>
to as Share or Shares of Prize Money, of the<lb></lb>
Prizes captured in April last And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-10">Benjamin Hitchins</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-11">Thomas Dykes</rs>
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For<lb></lb>
themselves severally say, that the Prisoner John<lb></lb>
Brown applied to them in the Character of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-12">William Richards</rs>
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, and personated him with<lb></lb>
Intent to Defraud <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-13">George Rogers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-14">John Lloyd</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-15">Francis Stevens</rs>
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of the Share or Shares of the Prize<lb></lb>
Money due to the lawful Reprensentatives of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n188-16">William Richards</rs>
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<p n="189">Taken and sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo201">Guildhall</rs>
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London <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15094_date39">29th April 1783</rs>
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. before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n189-1">Hen: Kitchin</rs>
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<p n="190"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n190-1">Charles Smyth</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n190-2">Wm. Clapp</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n190-3">B Kitchins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n190-4">Thos. Dyke</rs>
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