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<p n="24"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo27">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n24-1">Humphrey Fort</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo28">Moore Street</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo29">Saint<lb></lb>
Anns Soho</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
taken before me one of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace for the said County</p>
<p n="25">Who being upon Oath Saith that on the Fourteenth<lb></lb>
of March last being in distressed Circumstances and<lb></lb>
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the Sum of three Pounds Eleven Shillings<lb></lb>
& three pence being demanded of him by Mr Wood for Taxes<lb></lb>
which he was unable to pay. the Person now present who<lb></lb>
calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n25-1">John Burton</rs>
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at the Chambers of Messr.<lb></lb>
Machin & Cutley in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo30">Clifford's Inn</rs>
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offered to Lend this Informant the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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Sum of Two Guineas towards the Payment of the same<lb></lb>
which he accepted. & Burton asked him for a Note which<lb></lb>
he gave him for the said Sum. And this Informant<lb></lb>
further saith that last Night he was arrested for the<lb></lb>
Payment of the Sum of Two<del>Guineas</del>
Pounds and two<lb></lb>
Shillings upon the Promisory Note now produced<lb></lb>
in the Words & figures following Viz.</p>
<p n="26">March 12th. 1774<lb></lb>
Ten Days after Date I Promise to Pay to John<lb></lb>
Burton or Order the Sum of Two Pounds two Shillings<lb></lb>
for Value recd.</p>
<p n="27">by me Humphry Fort.</p>
<p n="28"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">£2.2.-</note>
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which said Sum this Informant paid but<del>that</del>
<lb></lb>
saith that the abovementioned Note and at the Signing<lb></lb>
thereof is not the hand Writing of this Informant but<lb></lb>
that the same is false forged and Counterfeit<del>and<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
</del>
and verily believes that the said John<lb></lb>
Burton did. Feloniously forge and Counterfeit the<lb></lb>
hand Writing of this Informant by Signing Humphrey<lb></lb>
Fort at the Bottom of the said Note And that she<lb></lb>
and a Person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n28-3">James<lb></lb>
Pinnell</rs>
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. Uttered the said Nots for the said Sum<lb></lb>
of Two Pounds and two Shillings knowing the same<lb></lb>
To be false forged and Counterfeit and that the said<lb></lb>
James Pinnell did at the time & before he delivered up the<lb></lb>
said Note to this Informant obliterate and deface</p>
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