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<p n="3831">Silversmith serve Time and in the Presence of this Informant Tender'd<lb></lb>
in Payment to the Silversmith a Note of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3831-1">Thomas Harrison</rs>
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's but for how<lb></lb>
much this Informant Cannot tell Leo pressed the Man very much to<lb></lb>
tak<obscured></obscured>
Bill He said it was a Good Bill and would be paid<lb></lb>
when due or else he would not have taken it himself, But the<lb></lb>
Silversmith said He was Ordered by his Master take nothing<lb></lb>
but Cash or a Bank Note and then took away his Goods and Went<lb></lb>
out of the House upon Which Hollo way Came down Stairs<lb></lb>
and Swore at Leo telling him He was so Damn'd as<del>Fool</del>
Idcot<lb></lb>
that if He Remin'd ever so long in that house or any other, He<lb></lb>
would never do any Business, Declaring He had Listned at the<lb></lb>
Window and heard the Silversmith say to the Man Who Came with<lb></lb>
him, that he should have been a Fool indeed if He had been flung<lb></lb>
by such a Fellow (meaning Leo) And this Informant further Saith<lb></lb>
that He did Lodge about the Space of Three Weeks or there abouts in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1493">Buckingham</rs>
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Street during Which Time Several Tradesemen did<lb></lb>
bring Goods to the said House but on being Offer'd Payment<lb></lb>
with such Notes did not have them and this Informant further<lb></lb>
Saith that the Twenty seventh day of September about Two<lb></lb>
or Three O' Clock in the Afternoon Mr. Holloway Came into the<lb></lb>
little Parlour or Office and Tols this Informant that Mr. Leo had<lb></lb>
told him that during the Space of last Week this Informant had<lb></lb>
not given due Attendance and in Particular at the Door to<lb></lb>
Answer to such Tradesemen and People as Came to them (meaning<lb></lb>
Leo and himself) but let Mr. Nichols or his Maid stand Porter for<lb></lb>
Us at the sam Time telling this Informant that on the Morning<lb></lb>
a Gentleman would Come on particular Business and bring<lb></lb>
To me Goods from a Silversmith and Desir'd this Informant not<lb></lb>
to be out of the Way And this Informant further Saith on the<lb></lb>
Twenty eighth day of September 1772 in the Morning about<lb></lb>
Eleven or Twelve O'Clock of the Day a Gentleman whose Name<lb></lb>
this Informant hath since learnt is Touling & Silversmith in<lb></lb>
Dukes Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1494">St. Martins</rs>
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Ask's for Mr. Leo with a Green<lb></lb>
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