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The Information of
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Right Honourable
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taken before me this 16th. day of June 1773
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Who being upon Oath say and first the said Jonathan Hurst for himself
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says that on or about the 31st day of May last a person now present who calls
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published as true to this Informant a Bill of Exchange
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now produced purporting to be the Bill of Exchange of Jams. Armstrong upon
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Jams. Shiel Esqr. Merrion Square Dublin for sixty eight pounds ten Shillings
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payable to Mr.
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Benjamin Johnston
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or Order forty one days after date and
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dated Wicklow Apl. 28th. 1773 and purporting to be accepted James Shiel
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and indorsed Ben. Johnston Robt. Johnston, that the next day this Informant
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went with the said
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to the Door of the Cocoa Tree
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where the said
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said he was to meet the Earl of Clanbrassil
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in order for him to undertake to pay the said Bill of Exchange when due, that
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went into the Cocoa Tree
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but this
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Informant did not, that about an hour afterwards the said
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brought the said Bill of Exchange back to this Informants'
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house it then being indorsed with the Words following Viz. " I promise to
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discharge this Bill when due Clanbrassill " , that the said
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then published to this Informant the said Bill of Exchange
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with the said Indorsement on it as the true Indorsement of the Earl
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of Clanbrassill, and the said
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of Clanbrassil for himself
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says that the said Indorsement last mentioned is not the Indorsement
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of this Informant but that the same is false forged and Counterfeit
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and the said Jonathan Hurst further says that the does verily
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