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<p n="1118"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo777">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1118-1">Henry Evans</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1118-2">William Clerk</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo778">Victualling Office</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo779">Tower Hill</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 14th.. day of April 1784.</p>
<p n="1119">Who being on Oath says that he has read and carefully<lb></lb>
examined a Receipt now produced purporting to be the Receipt<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1119-1">James Rooke</rs>
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Lieut Colonel to Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1119-2">Gambold Purser</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
this Majesty's Ship the Superbe, for Provisions Goods Etc for<lb></lb>
the Use of the Garrison at Gorse, and Dated the 10th.. of May<lb></lb>
1779. That in or about the Month of March 1783, upon this<lb></lb>
Informant's going to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo780">Victualling Office</rs>
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, he found a Letter<lb></lb>
on his Desk addressed to this Informant, which Letter contained<lb></lb>
the Receipt aforesaid and which Letter this Informant is<lb></lb>
very sure was wrote by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1119-3">William Robertson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ262">Esqr</rs>
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. of Clapham<lb></lb>
Common.</p>
<p n="1120"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1120-1">Henry Evans Williams</rs>
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:</p>
<p n="1121">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
14th.. day of April 1784}</p>
<p n="1122"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1122-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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