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The Information of
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taken before me this
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16th. day of January
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Who being upon Oath says that he Knows
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James Bolland
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near
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, that one Day in October last between
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the 12th. & 22nd. of that Month this Informant having some Business with one
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Mr. Labourer a
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or Brandy Merchant went to the George & Valture Tavern
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in Corhhill where he found the said Mr. Lab
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James Bolland
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, that this
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Informant desired that said James Bollard to take up a Bill of Exchange
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which this Informant had discounted, that the said
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James Bolland
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said he
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was short of Cash and Produced a Promissory Note now Produced of T. Bradshaw
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for one hundred pounds payable to Mr. Sam Pritchard or Order two Months after
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Date and Dated London 12 Oct 1771. that the said Promissory Note was then
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indorsed with the Names of St. Pritchard and
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James Bolland
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, that this
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Informant refused to get the said Note discounted with the Name of
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James
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indorsed upon it saying he would not have his Name
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on the Same Paper with the said
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James Bolland
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said he would take off his Indorsement from the said Note, that the said Mr.
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Laburn then begun to scratch out the Name of the said
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with
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a Knife, that the said
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James Bolland
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desired the said Mr. Labour not
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to Scratch out his Christian Name nor B the Initial Letter of his Surname
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saying he could put on some other Name that begun with a B, that the
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said
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James Bolland
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did then add the Letters ''anks'' to the said Letter B
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making the Name indorsed on the said Note ''
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James Banks
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'', says this
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James Bolland
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he should perhaps get a particular
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friend to discount the said Note who night probably be inquisitive who
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were the Indorsers upon which the said
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James Bolland
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James
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Banks
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lived in or
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near Rathbone Place
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and was a Publican, says
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he this Informant delivered the said Promissory Note to
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Francis
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Cardinaux now present and that a few days afterwards on a
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Saturday Evening the said
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Francis Lewis
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Cardinaux this Informant
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one Mr. Hadford and
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this Informant
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the said
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James Bolland
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met at the Rainbow
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Coffee
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in
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where the said Francis
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