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<p n="1403"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1001">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1403-1">Francis Calvert</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1403-2">John Partridge</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1403-3">Elizabeth Whitmore</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1403-4">Richard Middleton</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 14th.. day of August 1782.</p>
<p n="1404">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1404-1">Francis Calvert</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
in or about March 1781 a Person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1404-2">John<lb></lb>
Clack</rs>
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came to this Informants House in Theobalds Road and wanted<lb></lb>
to hire a Phaeton which he refused him unless he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1404-4">John<lb></lb>
Clack</rs>
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deposited £10 as a Security for the samethis Informant<lb></lb>
not knowing him or where he lived. That said Clack left this<lb></lb>
Informant saying "he would bring him the Money the next Day"<lb></lb>
but which said Clack neglected to do. That about 3 or 4 Days af-<lb></lb>
terwards this Informant received a Letter from said Clack desiring<lb></lb>
him to meet him at Old Slaughters <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1002">Coffee house</rs>
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whither he<lb></lb>
went and saw him at Dinner with others That said Clack<lb></lb>
proposed to this Informant to enter into an Agreement with<lb></lb>
him that he this Informant should Serve him with a Phaeton<lb></lb>
and a Pair of Horses for a limited Time, but which this<lb></lb>
Informant refused to Comply with. That said Clack then asked<lb></lb>
this Informant if he was going<obscured></obscured>
this Informant replied<lb></lb>
Yeswhen said Clack observed that he would be with this Informant<lb></lb>
in a couple of Hours. That said Clack came to this Informants<lb></lb>
house about the appointed time, took out of his Pocket the Bill<lb></lb>
of Exchange now produced purporting to be the Bill of Exchange<lb></lb>
of Richd.. Riddleton, on Mrs.. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1404-5">Thomas Smith</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1003">George Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1004">Spittlefields</rs>
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London, for the Payment of Thirty Pounds, to Mrs.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1404-6">Thomas Lorkin</rs>
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or Order,<del>and</del>
dated Febry.. 8th.. 1781 and purporting<lb></lb>
to be Accepted by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1404-7">Thomas Smith</rs>
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and which said Bill<lb></lb>
of Exchange said Clack put into this Informant's hands saying<lb></lb>
that it was a good Bill, & that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1404-8">Thomas Lorkin</rs>
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(to whom it<lb></lb>
was payable) was of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1005">Victualling Office</rs>
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" and after Indorsing</p>
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