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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1679-1">Jonathan Hurst</rs>
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and the <lb></lb>
Right Honourable <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1679-2">James Earl</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo677">Clanbrassil</rs>
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taken before me this 16th. day of June 1773</p>
<p n="1680">Who being upon Oath say and first the said Jonathan Hurst for himself <lb></lb>
says that on or about the 31st day of May last a person now present who calls <lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1680-1">Robert Johnston</rs>
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published as true to this Informant a Bill of Exchange <lb></lb>
now produced purporting to be the Bill of Exchange of Jams. Armstrong upon<lb></lb>
Jams. Shiel Esqr. Merrion Square Dublin for sixty eight pounds ten Shillings <lb></lb>
payable to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1680-2">Benjamin Johnston</rs>
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or Order forty one days after date and <lb></lb>
dated Wicklow Apl. 28th. 1773 and purporting to be accepted James Shiel <lb></lb>
and indorsed Ben. Johnston Robt. Johnston, that the next day this Informant <lb></lb>
went with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1680-3">Robert Johnston</rs>
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to the Door of the Cocoa Tree <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo678">Coffee house</rs>
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where the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1680-4">Robert Johnston</rs>
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said he was to meet the Earl of Clanbrassil<lb></lb>
in order for him to undertake to pay the said Bill of Exchange when due, that <lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1680-5">Robert Johnston</rs>
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went into the Cocoa Tree <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45019_geo679">Coffee house</rs>
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but this <lb></lb>
Informant did not, that about an hour afterwards the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1680-6">Robert<lb></lb>
Johnston</rs>
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brought the said Bill of Exchange back to this Informants' <lb></lb>
house it then being indorsed with the Words following Viz. " I promise to <lb></lb>
discharge this Bill when due Clanbrassill " , that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1680-7">Robert <lb></lb>
Johnston</rs>
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then published to this Informant the said Bill of Exchange <lb></lb>
with the said Indorsement on it as the true Indorsement of the Earl <lb></lb>
of Clanbrassill, and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n1680-8">James Earl</rs>
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of Clanbrassil for himself <lb></lb>
says that the said Indorsement last mentioned is not the Indorsement <lb></lb>
of this Informant but that the same is false forged and Counterfeit<lb></lb>
and the said Jonathan Hurst further says that the does verily</p>
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