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14th December 1784 - 7th December 1786

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Image 10 of 51824th December 1784


Middlesex (to wit)


The several Informations of
Thomas Burne< no role > Junior and
Samuel Brook< no role > of the City of
London Gentleman Clerks to
Messrs. Hazard and Co. Lottery
Office Keepers Royal Exchange
London taken upon Oath before
me Sr. Simpson Wright< no role > Knt .
one of His Majesty's Justices of
the Peace in and for the County of
Middlesex this Twenty fourth
day of December one thousand
seven hundred and Eighty four .

And first this Informant Thomas Burne< no role > for
himself saith that about the Hour of six o'Clock
o'Clock in the Evening of Monday the twenty ninth
day of November last as near as this Informant
can recollect as to the Hour the Person now present
and now calling himself John Mills< no role > presented
for Payment to this Informant at the Shop of the
said Messrs. Hazard and Co: the Quarter Share of
a Lottery Ticket in the Lottery of the Year one
thousand seven hundred and Eighty three
Numbered 28m 152 now produced which was
drawn a Prize of Twenty Pounds that Payment
thereof being stop't on Account of its having been
sent by the Post and not received by the Party to
whom it was so sent this Informant told the said
Person who presented the said share that it could
not be paid and asked him who he was and
from whom he received it whereupon he told this
Informant that his Name was Clark and that
he had the said Share from one Thomas Mills< no role >
of Southwold in Cornwall And this Informant
Samuel Brook< no role > for himself Saith that he was present
when the Person now present and now calling
himself John Mills< no role > presented to the other Informant
Thomas Burne< no role > the said Share of the Ticket before
described and saith that he is the identical Person
who so Presented it.

Taken and Sworn
before me the Day
and Year first
above said}

Sampr Wright< no role >

Thos Burne< no role > Junr
S Brooke




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