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<p n="1098"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo770">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1098-1">Robert Douglass</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo771">Whitechaple</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ256">Gentleman</rs>
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taken before me this 26th.. day of<lb></lb>
April 1784.</p>
<p n="1099">Who on his Oath says that He was Clerk to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1099-1">William Robertson</rs>
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now present from the 26th.. Day of June 1782 to the 20th.. Day of<lb></lb>
August 1783: That from the Month of January 1783 to the<lb></lb>
Month of May following as this Informant believes David<lb></lb>
Mc. Cormick was also employed as a Clerk by the said Mr. Robertson<lb></lb>
That on a Sunday in the Month of April 1783 as he believes<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1099-2">David Mc Cormick</rs>
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went to the House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1099-3">William<lb></lb>
Robertson</rs>
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at Clapham and returned on the Wednesday following<lb></lb>
to the Accompting House of said Mr. Robertson in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo772">Victualling<lb></lb>
Office</rs>
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. That on his Return this Informant asked said Mc. Cormick<lb></lb>
what He had been doing at Clapham, to which Said Mc. Cormick<lb></lb>
replied that ''He had been Forging Gambold's and other<lb></lb>
Papers during the three Days he had Staid" That he<lb></lb>
hath now Seen on Order purporting to be the Order of Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1099-4">Edwd.<lb></lb>
Hughes</rs>
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to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1099-5">Gambold Purcer</rs>
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of the Superbe for the Delivery<lb></lb>
of Provisions Etc for the use of the Garrison of Gorce, Dated<lb></lb>
the 9th.. May 1774and a Receipt Indorsed thereon purporting<lb></lb>
to be the Receipt of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1099-6">James Rook</rs>
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Leiut. Colonel to the<lb></lb>
Said Mr. Gambeld for the said Provisions Etc, Dated the 10th. May<lb></lb>
1779 as well as Certificate of R Simonton entitled<lb></lb>
"Superbe Extra expence of Casks & Hoops between the 17th.<lb></lb>
July 1778 & 2nd April 1780 and is very sure that the<lb></lb>
said three Papers were wrote by the David Mc. Cormick</p>
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