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<p n="1665"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo847">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1665-1">William King</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo848">Chander's<lb></lb>
Street Covent Garden</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ245">Mercer</rs>
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and of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1665-2">Joseph<lb></lb>
Pope</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ246">Servant</rs>
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to the Same taken before me<lb></lb>
this 3rd. day of August 1768</p>
<p n="1666">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1666-1">William<lb></lb>
King</rs>
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for himself says that on Saturday Morning last a person<lb></lb>
now present who calls himself Elias Chippett published and<lb></lb>
tendered in Payment to this Informant as true a Bill of Exchange<lb></lb>
now produced purporting to be the Bill of Exchange of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1666-2">William Holmes</rs>
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upon Messrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1666-3">Elias Chippett</rs>
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& Co. Merchants for twelve pounds<lb></lb>
five Shillings in favour of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1666-4">John Hall</rs>
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and this Informant farther<lb></lb>
saith that he verily believes the said Bill to be falsely made forged<lb></lb>
and counterfeited and that it was published by the said Chippet knowing<lb></lb>
it to be so, says that last Saturday Morning the said Chippet called<lb></lb>
himself Rogers and wrote the Name Wm. Rogers upon the said<lb></lb>
Bill, and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1666-5">Joseph Pope</rs>
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for himself says that on<lb></lb>
Saturday last he went by the Directions of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1666-6">William King</rs>
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to the Portugal <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo849">Coffee House</rs>
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to enquire after <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1666-7">Elias Chippet</rs>
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& Co.<lb></lb>
& was there told that knew no such person and that several<lb></lb>
Bills upon the same persons had been brought there but that<lb></lb>
they had all been returned as there was no person to answer<lb></lb>
them</p>
<p n="1667"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n1667-1">Wm. King</rs>
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<p n="1668">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
August 3rd. 1768.}</p>
<p n="1669">Pope</p>
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