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<p n="1185"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo824">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1185-1">Alexander Wallis</rs>
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of Norfolk Street<lb></lb>
Strand Agent, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1185-2">William, Newman</rs>
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Servant to Captain<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1185-3">Philip Affleck</rs>
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of No 23 in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo825">Wimpole Street</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
Young Gifford of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1185-4">Tooley Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ271">Seaman</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 4th. day of February 1784.</p>
<p n="1186">Who on their Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1186-1">Alexander Wallis</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that, on Saturday last, two Persons now present who call them-<lb></lb>
selves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1186-2">Thomas Brett</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1186-3">Patrick Carr</rs>
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, came together to this Infor-<lb></lb>
-mant's Lodging in Norfolk Street, and produced to him the two<lb></lb>
Certificates now produced, purporting to be the Certificates of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1186-4">Philip Affleck</rs>
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Esqr. That this informant asked said Brett<lb></lb>
where he got the Certificate, who answered "From Captain Afflick"<lb></lb>
This Informant then asked said Brett whether his Name was<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1186-5">James Robinson</rs>
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and whether He belonged to the Triumph,<lb></lb>
who replied in the AffirmativeThat this Informant<lb></lb>
then put the same Questions to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1186-6">Patrick Carr</rs>
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as he<lb></lb>
had put to said Brett, who also replied in the Affirmative<lb></lb>
That this Informant then told them that the Certificates were<lb></lb>
forged and they would both be HangedWhereupon they both<lb></lb>
replied "There are the three Men Walking in the Street on the<lb></lb>
opposite side (Pointing to three Men then Walking there)<lb></lb>
from whom we had the Certificates, and the Man in the White<lb></lb>
Coat forged themAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1186-7">William Newman</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that he was present at this time and heard what passed from<lb></lb>
the Months of said Brett and Carr as before stated by Mr.<lb></lb>
Wallis and further says that the signatures of "P Affleck"<lb></lb>
to the Certificates now produced, are not, nor is either of<lb></lb>
them, the Hand Writing of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1186-8">Philip Affleck</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
And the said Young Gifford says that He was also present, and<lb></lb>
upon the said Brett and Carr saying that "The three Men were</p>
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