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The King agt. James Fellon
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James Everdell
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of Serjeants Inn
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London Gentleman and
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Aaron Eaton
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aforesaid Shoemaker jointly and severally make
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Oath and first the said James Everdell Saith that on Saturday the fourteenth day
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of June last about Six or Seven in the Evening he inclosed in a Letter from himself
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directed to Mr. Westron Attorney at Law at Wellington near Taunton Somersetshire
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a Bank Note for twenty five Pounds and a Bank post Bill for Ten Pounds and
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that he delivered such Letter with the said Bank Note and Bank Post Bill so
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inclosed and sealed to the other Deponent
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Aaron Eaton
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in the Shop belonging to
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his House in
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where the said
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Lakes in Letters for
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the General Post and at the same lane paid him eight Pence for the Postage
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thereof and the said
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saith that from the great Number of Letters
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that he receives every Post night he do's not Remember the said other
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Deponents delivering him such Letter, but saith that if he did (and which he has
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no doubt but he did) he this Deponent put the said Letter into the usual
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place in his Shop for putting in Post paid Letters and Saith that the above
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named James Fellon who was then this Deponents apprentice was all that
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evening at Work in the said Shop and left this Deponents House the next
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Morning (being Sunday) in order, as usual, to go to his Father's, but
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instead of Returning again that night as Usual this Deponent heard no
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more of him till the Friday following when he heard that his said
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Apprentice was at Newport Oagnell in Bucks to which place this
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Deponent immediately proceeded in pursuit of him and upon his Arrival
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there he was informed to his great Surprize that the said Felton had
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bought a Silver Watch and other things of Value there and had exchanged
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a Twenty five Pound Bank Note there and Saith that he having secured
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his said Apprentice this Deponent very Strictly examined him how he
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came by the said Bank Note being then well Satisfied that he had not
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come honesty by it and his said apprentice then pretended to this
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Deponent that he had found the Same on Monday Night the Sixteenth
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day of June in
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And the Deponent James Everdell Saith that he
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having on the Second day of July received advice from the said Mr. Westron
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that he had not Received such Letters this Deponent made all the Enquiry in
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his Power to discover the Reason thereof and the day following Went to the
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said Aaron Eatons to Make Enquiry there about the said Letter and
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Represented to the said
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what were the Contents so inclosed in
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the said Letter and the said
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saith that upon such Intelligence he
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then had not the least doubt but that his said apprentice Felton had Stollen
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the said Letter and the said Bank Note and Bank Post Bill and that the
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