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<p n="1584">The King agt. James Fellon</p>
<p n="1585"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1585-1">James Everdell</rs>
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of Serjeants Inn <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo550">Chancery Lane</rs>
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London Gentleman and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1585-2">Aaron Eaton</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo551">Chancery Lane</rs>
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aforesaid Shoemaker jointly and severally make<lb></lb>
Oath and first the said James Everdell Saith that on Saturday the fourteenth day<lb></lb>
of June last about Six or Seven in the Evening he inclosed in a Letter from himself<lb></lb>
directed to Mr. Westron Attorney at Law at Wellington near Taunton Somersetshire<lb></lb>
a Bank Note for twenty five Pounds and a Bank post Bill for Ten Pounds and<lb></lb>
that he delivered such Letter with the said Bank Note and Bank Post Bill so<lb></lb>
inclosed and sealed to the other Deponent <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1585-3">Aaron Eaton</rs>
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in the Shop belonging to<lb></lb>
his House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo552">Chancery Lane</rs>
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where the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1585-4">Aaron Eaton</rs>
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Lakes in Letters for<lb></lb>
the General Post and at the same lane paid him eight Pence for the Postage<lb></lb>
thereof and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1585-5">Aaron Eaton</rs>
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saith that from the great Number of Letters<lb></lb>
that he receives every Post night he do's not Remember the said other<lb></lb>
Deponents delivering him such Letter, but saith that if he did (and which he has <lb></lb>
no doubt but he did) he this Deponent put the said Letter into the usual<lb></lb>
place in his Shop for putting in Post paid Letters and Saith that the above<lb></lb>
named James Fellon who was then this Deponents apprentice was all that<lb></lb>
evening at Work in the said Shop and left this Deponents House the next<lb></lb>
Morning (being Sunday) in order, as usual, to go to his Father's, but<lb></lb>
instead of Returning again that night as Usual this Deponent heard no<lb></lb>
more of him till the Friday following when he heard that his said<lb></lb>
Apprentice was at Newport Oagnell in Bucks to which place this<lb></lb>
Deponent immediately proceeded in pursuit of him and upon his Arrival<lb></lb>
there he was informed to his great Surprize that the said Felton had<lb></lb>
bought a Silver Watch and other things of Value there and had exchanged<lb></lb>
a Twenty five Pound Bank Note there and Saith that he having secured<lb></lb>
his said Apprentice this Deponent very Strictly examined him how he<lb></lb>
came by the said Bank Note being then well Satisfied that he had not<lb></lb>
come honesty by it and his said apprentice then pretended to this<lb></lb>
Deponent that he had found the Same on Monday Night the Sixteenth<lb></lb>
day of June in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45010_geo553">Fleet Street</rs>
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And the Deponent James Everdell Saith that he <lb></lb>
having on the Second day of July received advice from the said Mr. Westron<lb></lb>
that he had not Received such Letters this Deponent made all the Enquiry in<lb></lb>
his Power to discover the Reason thereof and the day following Went to the<lb></lb>
said Aaron Eatons to Make Enquiry there about the said Letter and<lb></lb>
Represented to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1585-6">Aaron Eaton</rs>
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what were the Contents so inclosed in<lb></lb>
the said Letter and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45010_n1585-7">Aaron Eaton</rs>
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saith that upon such Intelligence he<lb></lb>
then had not the least doubt but that his said apprentice Felton had Stollen<lb></lb>
the said Letter and the said Bank Note and Bank Post Bill and that the</p>
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