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<p n="201"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo161">Westminster</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n201-1">Thomas Parker</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo162">Fleet Street</rs>
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Pawn broker taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15098_date36">27th. day of February 1787</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="202">Who being upon Oath saith That in or about<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
February 1786 a Person now Present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n202-1">Benjamin Gregson</rs>
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came to this Informant<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ72">Shop</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo163">Fleet Street</rs>
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and Published to him the<lb></lb>
Bill of Exchange now produced purporting to be<lb></lb>
the Bill of Exchange of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n202-2">John Creswell</rs>
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on Messrs.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n202-3">Samuel Clark</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ73">Son</rs>
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& Compy. Morley near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo164">Leeds</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo165">Yorkshire</rs>
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for the Payment of Fifteen Pounds<lb></lb>
Ten Shillings to the order of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n202-5">Joseph Webster</rs>
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Two Months after date dated <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo166">Manchester</rs>
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December 15th. 1785 and Purporting to be Indorsed <lb></lb>
by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n202-6">John Buckley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ74">Esqr</rs>
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. Bermondsey Street<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo167">Southwark</rs>
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That From Inquiry since made<lb></lb>
he is very sure that the Indorsement of John<lb></lb>
Buckley on said Bill of Exchange is a Forgery<lb></lb>
That at the same time this Informant requested<lb></lb>
said Gregson to write his Name on said Bill of<lb></lb>
Exchange when he wrote the Name of James<lb></lb>
Mills which now appears thereon giving this<lb></lb>
Informant at the same time his address vizt.<lb></lb>
No.151 <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo168">Bermondsey</rs>
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Street <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ75">Borough</rs>
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And<lb></lb>
Further Days he believes that said Gregson<lb></lb>
Forged and published the said Indorsement<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n202-8">John Buckley</rs>
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and the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n202-9">James Mills</rs>
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<lb></lb>
as his own Name with an intention to defraud<lb></lb>
this Informant.</p>
<p n="203">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
day and Year aforesaid}<lb></lb>
N Bond</p>
<p n="204"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n204-1">Thos. Parker</rs>
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