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to wit
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The Information of
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Humphrey Fort
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in the Parish of
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Saint
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taken before me one of his Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace for the said County
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Who being upon Oath Saith that on the Fourteenth
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of March last being in distressed Circumstances and
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the Sum of three Pounds Eleven Shillings
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& three pence being demanded of him by Mr Wood for Taxes
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which he was unable to pay. the Person now present who
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calls himself
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John Burton
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at the Chambers of Messr.
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Machin & Cutley in
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Clifford's Inn
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offered to Lend this Informant the
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Sum of Two Guineas towards the Payment of the same
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which he accepted. & Burton asked him for a Note which
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he gave him for the said Sum. And this Informant
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further saith that last Night he was arrested for the
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Payment of the Sum of Two
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Pounds and two
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Shillings upon the Promisory Note now produced
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in the Words & figures following Viz.
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March 12th. 1774
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Ten Days after Date I Promise to Pay to John
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Burton or Order the Sum of Two Pounds two Shillings
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for Value recd.
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by me Humphry Fort.
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£2.2.-
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which said Sum this Informant paid but
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that
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saith that the abovementioned Note and at the Signing
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thereof is not the hand Writing of this Informant but
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that the same is false forged and Counterfeit
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and verily believes that the said John
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Burton did. Feloniously forge and Counterfeit the
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hand Writing of this Informant by Signing Humphrey
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Fort at the Bottom of the said Note And that she
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and a Person now present who calls himself
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James
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Pinnell
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. Uttered the said Nots for the said Sum
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of Two Pounds and two Shillings knowing the same
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To be false forged and Counterfeit and that the said
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James Pinnell did at the time & before he delivered up the
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said Note to this Informant obliterate and deface
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