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<p n="1612"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo815">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1612-1">Thomas Gloucester</rs>
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Servant to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1612-2">John Town</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1612-3">John Barbank</rs>
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of Cornhill <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo816">Haberdasher</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1612-4">Hugh<lb></lb>
Mathews</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo817">Kings Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo818">St. Jameses</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ233">Chairman</rs>
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taken before me this<lb></lb>
13: day of July 1768</p>
<p n="1613">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1613-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Gloucester</rs>
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for himself saith that on Saturday last he recd. from<lb></lb>
the other Informt. Mathews a Bill of Exchange now produced<lb></lb>
purporting to be the Bill of Exchange of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1613-2">Samuel Warner</rs>
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in favour of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1613-3">William Harrison</rs>
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or Order for Ten pounds and Indorsed<lb></lb>
Wm. Harrison as a true one and Informant Hugh Mathews for<lb></lb>
himself faith that on Saturday last he recd. form a Person now<lb></lb>
present who calls himself Kiohd. Holt the said Bill of Exchange<lb></lb>
in Order to carry to the aforesaid <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1613-4">John Town</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1613-5">John Burbank</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and this Informant Thomas Gloncester for himself for farther<lb></lb>
says that he enquire at House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1613-6">Hinton Brown</rs>
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and Son<lb></lb>
on whom said Bill was made payable and found they<lb></lb>
did not keep Cash for any such Person as <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1613-7">Samuel Warner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
form all which circumstance he suspects and verily believes<lb></lb>
that the aforesd. Bill is falsely made forget and Counterfeited<lb></lb>
and that it was published by the said Holt knowing it to<lb></lb>
be so with Intent to Cheat and Defraud the said Mr. Town<lb></lb>
and Burbank</p>
<p n="1614"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1614-1">Thomas Gloster</rs>
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<p n="1615">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
July 13th. 1768<lb></lb>
his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1615-1">Hugh<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Mathew</rs>
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Mark</p>
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