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<p n="1258"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo460">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1258-1">James Meyrick</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45010_occ172">Esqr</rs>
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. and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1258-2">Joseph Cox</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 30th. day of May 1766</p>
<p n="1259">Who being upon Oath severally day and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1259-1">Joseph<lb></lb>
Cox</rs>
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for himself saith that on Whit Monday last a Person<lb></lb>
who calls himself Capt Thornhill came to the house aprt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1259-2">Thomas Colemen</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45010_occ173">Breeches maker</rs>
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at Chairing Criss, this<lb></lb>
Informants Master, and sent this Informant. to the house<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1259-3">Vincent Mathias</rs>
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Esqr. in Scotland Yard with a Bill<lb></lb>
of Exchange now produced purporting to be the Bill of<lb></lb>
Exchange of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1259-4">Jno. Johnston</rs>
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Capt. in the 24th. Regt. of Foot<lb></lb>
dated Gibralter Apl. the 12th. 1766 for Twenty pounds in favour<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1259-5">George Coote</rs>
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Esqr. upon the sd. Mr. Mathias and indorsed <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1259-6">George<lb></lb>
Coote</rs>
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and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1259-7">James Megrick</rs>
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Esqr. for himself saith<lb></lb>
that he hath seen the Bill of Exchange above described<lb></lb>
that he is well acquainted in the hand writing of<lb></lb>
Capt <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1259-8">John Johnston</rs>
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of the 24th. Regmt. now at<lb></lb>
Gibratler that he verily believes that the Name Jno<lb></lb>
Johnston Signed to the aforesaid Bill of Exchange is not<lb></lb>
of the hand writing of him the sd. Capt Johnston but that<lb></lb>
the same is false Forged and Counterfeited and published<lb></lb>
by the said Thornhill with Intent to Defraud</p>
<p n="1260">Sworn before me the day<lb></lb>
and Year first above Writen}</p>
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<p n="1262"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1262-1">Jas. Meyrick</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1262-2">Jos: Cox</rs>
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