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<p n="466"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo190">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n466-1">Alexander Jesson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45018_date26">16th. day of January<lb></lb>
1772</rs>
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<p n="467">Who being upon Oath says that he Knows <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-1">James Bolland</rs>
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<lb></lb>
late of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo191">Shire Lane</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo192">Temple Bar</rs>
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, that one Day in October last between<lb></lb>
the 12th. & 22nd. of that Month this Informant having some Business with one<lb></lb>
Mr. Labourer a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ49">Distiller</rs>
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or Brandy Merchant went to the George & Valture Tavern<lb></lb>
in Corhhill where he found the said Mr. Lab<del>urn</del>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-2">James Bolland</rs>
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, that this<lb></lb>
Informant desired that said James Bollard to take up a Bill of Exchange<lb></lb>
which this Informant had discounted, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-3">James Bolland</rs>
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said he<lb></lb>
was short of Cash and Produced a Promissory Note now Produced of T. Bradshaw<lb></lb>
for one hundred pounds payable to Mr. Sam Pritchard or Order two Months after<lb></lb>
Date and Dated London 12 Oct 1771. that the said Promissory Note was then<lb></lb>
indorsed with the Names of St. Pritchard and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-4">James Bolland</rs>
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, that this<lb></lb>
Informant refused to get the said Note discounted with the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-5">James<lb></lb>
Bolland</rs>
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indorsed upon it saying he would not have his Name<lb></lb>
on the Same Paper with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-6">James Bolland</rs>
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, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-7">James Bolland</rs>
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<lb></lb>
said he would take off his Indorsement from the said Note, that the said Mr.<lb></lb>
Laburn then begun to scratch out the Name of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-8">James Bolland</rs>
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with<lb></lb>
a Knife, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-9">James Bolland</rs>
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desired the said Mr. Labour not<lb></lb>
to Scratch out his Christian Name nor B the Initial Letter of his Surname<lb></lb>
saying he could put on some other Name that begun with a B, that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-10">James Bolland</rs>
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did then add the Letters ''anks'' to the said Letter B<lb></lb>
making the Name indorsed on the said Note ''<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-11">James Banks</rs>
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'', says this<lb></lb>
Informant told the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-12">James Bolland</rs>
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he should perhaps get a particular<lb></lb>
friend to discount the said Note who night probably be inquisitive who<lb></lb>
were the Indorsers upon which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-13">James Bolland</rs>
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said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-14">James<lb></lb>
Banks</rs>
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lived in or <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo193">near Rathbone Place</rs>
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and was a Publican, says<lb></lb>
he this Informant delivered the said Promissory Note to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-15">Francis<lb></lb>
Lewis</rs>
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Cardinaux now present and that a few days afterwards on a<lb></lb>
Saturday Evening the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-16">Francis Lewis</rs>
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Cardinaux this Informant<lb></lb>
one Mr. Hadford and<del>this Informant</del>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n467-17">James Bolland</rs>
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met at the Rainbow <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo194">Coffee<lb></lb>
house</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo195">King Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo196">Covent Garden</rs>
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where the said Francis</p>
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