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The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2323-1">Mary Barnet</rs>
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&<lb></lb>
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For<lb></lb>
Felony<lb></lb>
and<lb></lb>
Forgery</p>
<p n="2324"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-1">Robert Dent</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo1115">Fleet Street</rs>
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London Banker one of the<lb></lb>
Prosecutors in this Cause maketh Oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-2">Mary<lb></lb>
Barnet</rs>
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stands charged for feloniously publishing as true two<lb></lb>
certain Bills of Exchange purporting to be the Bills of Exchange<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-3">Robert Piggot</rs>
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Esquire upon Child and Company for Fifty<lb></lb>
Pounds each knowing the same to be forged with Intention to<lb></lb>
defraud <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-4">Robert Child</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-5">Robert Lovelace</rs>
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this Deponent and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-6">John<lb></lb>
Church</rs>
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against the Statute And this Deponent saith that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-7">Thomas Grindall</rs>
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stands charged on Suspicion of having been<lb></lb>
concerned in feloniously and falsely making forging and<lb></lb>
counterfieting the said two Prills of Exchange with the like<lb></lb>
Intention against the Statute And this Deponent saith that it<lb></lb>
appeared upon the Examination of the said Defendants before Sir<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-8">John Fielding</rs>
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Knight that the said two Bills of Exchange were<lb></lb>
sent by the Post from Stilton in Huntingdonshire inclosed in<lb></lb>
Letters purporting to have been wrote by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-9">Robert Piggot</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who lives near there to the said Defendant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-10">Mary Barnet</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
then lived in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo1116">Phoenix Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo1117">Long Acre</rs>
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And this Deponent<lb></lb>
saith that the said Forgerys and Publications was<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Transactions<lb></lb>
of so much Intricacy as to have occasioned many necessary<lb></lb>
Inquirys to be made in Huntingdon shire since the said<lb></lb>
Defendants were committed to Prison to enable this Deponent<lb></lb>
and his said Partners to carry on the Prosecutions with<lb></lb>
effect against the said Defendants for which reason this Deponent<lb></lb>
and his said Partners haven of been able to lay proper Evidence<lb></lb>
before the Grand Jury as this Deponent is advised and verily<lb></lb>
believes to find Indictments against the said Defendants to be<lb></lb>
tried at this present Session And this Deponent Saith that on<lb></lb>
the Examinations before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2324-11">John Fielding</rs>
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lately had</p>
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