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<p n="1236"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo860">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1236-1">James Delancey</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ316">Esqr</rs>
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.. of No. 39<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo861">Wigmore Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo862">Cavendish Square</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 24th.. day of June 1782.</p>
<p n="1237">Who being on Oath says that on Tuesday the eighteenth Day of<lb></lb>
June Instant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1237-8">Lloyd Delany</rs>
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Esqr.. since deceased called on this Infor-<lb></lb>
mant at No 39 aforesaid and told him he had received a Challenge<lb></lb>
from The <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ317">Reverend</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1237-1">Bennett Allen</rs>
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by Letter and which Letter he then<lb></lb>
produced and added that said Letter had been brought to him by<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1237-2">Robert Morris</rs>
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Esqr. who was then waiting in a Coach at the<lb></lb>
door. That said Lloyd Delany then requested this Informant to<lb></lb>
go with him and said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1237-3">Robert Morris</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo863">Islington</rs>
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Spa. where it<lb></lb>
was supposed the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1237-4">Bennett Allen</rs>
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was That this Informant<lb></lb>
according by accompanied said Lloyd Delany to the Coach in which<lb></lb>
they found said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1237-5">Robert Morris</rs>
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, and all three went in said Coach<lb></lb>
together to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo864">Islington</rs>
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Spa. That when they came there, they<lb></lb>
were told that Mr. Allen was gone to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1237-6">Bamber Gascoyne</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45026_occ318">Esqr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo865">Ilford</rs>
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. That Mrs. Delany proposed following him there but<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1237-7">Robert Morris</rs>
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observed that he might probably be gone<lb></lb>
from thence before they arrived, in which case they should<lb></lb>
miss of him and advised the Mater to be deferred till next<lb></lb>
Day; when Mr.. Delany observe tha such was his state of<lb></lb>
mind on account of his Wifes distress that he wished to<lb></lb>
have the Matter decided as soon as Possible and requested<lb></lb>
Mr.. Morris to write to Mr. Allen to that purport, and that Mr.<lb></lb>
Allen would come prepared. That Mr. Morris thereupon observed<lb></lb>
that he did not know whether Mr. Allen would fight Mr.. Delany<lb></lb>
or not, but that he would write to him as desired, which he<lb></lb>
accordingly did to the effect before stated. That they all</p>
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