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home to his Lodgings Let himself in having a Key
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that he laid down upon his Bed in his Cloaths
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until six o'Clock in the Morning did not go
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out before eight o'Clock and then after having his
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hair dressed by the Barber went to General Conway's
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staid there half an hour then Breakfasted at one
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Hudson's in the Paved Court in
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who
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is either the King or Queen's Coachman then went
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about ten o'Clock into the City with Mr. Prestage
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belonging to the
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went to the Bank
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with
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him when Examinant exchanged a Bank Note of £100
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on which he wrote Stanton at Pimlics received it
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all in Cash then paid Mr. Prestage thirteen Guineas
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of it which he owned him says the Person that Changed
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this note for him sat on the right hand and was in
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green Cloaths says Prestage then went to the
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and that he went home where
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he got about twelve o'Clock says he then took the
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five hundred pound note and returned Immediately
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to the Bank and changed it Says he wrote on that Note
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Thomas Williams
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So he says that these were two of
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the Notes which he took out of General Conway's
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house as aforesaid says he recd' exchange for the last
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mentioned note one hundred pounds in Cash and eight
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Bank notes of fifty pounds each says that the eight
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fifty pound notes now produced are the same to recd. in
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exchange for the
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five hundred pound note as aforesaid
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and that three notes of One hundred pound each and one
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for Twenty five pounds also now produced are past of the Notes
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which he Stole out of General Conway's drawer in
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manner aforesaid says that since Tuesday last he paid
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