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The King
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For
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Felony
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and
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Forgery
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Robert Dent
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Fleet Street
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London Banker one of the
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Prosecutors in this Cause maketh Oath that the said
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Mary
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Barnet
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stands charged for feloniously publishing as true two
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certain Bills of Exchange purporting to be the Bills of Exchange
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of
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Robert Piggot
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Esquire upon Child and Company for Fifty
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Pounds each knowing the same to be forged with Intention to
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defraud
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this Deponent and
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John
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against the Statute And this Deponent saith that the said
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stands charged on Suspicion of having been
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concerned in feloniously and falsely making forging and
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counterfieting the said two Prills of Exchange with the like
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Intention against the Statute And this Deponent saith that it
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appeared upon the Examination of the said Defendants before Sir
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John Fielding
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Knight that the said two Bills of Exchange were
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sent by the Post from Stilton in Huntingdonshire inclosed in
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Letters purporting to have been wrote by the said
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who lives near there to the said Defendant
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Mary Barnet
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who
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then lived in
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Phoenix Court
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And this Deponent
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saith that the said Forgerys and Publications was
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Transactions
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of so much Intricacy as to have occasioned many necessary
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Inquirys to be made in Huntingdon shire since the said
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Defendants were committed to Prison to enable this Deponent
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and his said Partners to carry on the Prosecutions with
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effect against the said Defendants for which reason this Deponent
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and his said Partners haven of been able to lay proper Evidence
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before the Grand Jury as this Deponent is advised and verily
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believes to find Indictments against the said Defendants to be
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tried at this present Session And this Deponent Saith that on
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the Examinations before Sir
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lately had
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