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<p n="3994"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2713">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3994-1">John Clark</rs>
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Landlord of the Mass<lb></lb>
Head at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2714">Knightsbridge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3994-2">James Samerlain</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2715">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ938">Labourer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3994-3">Robert Ralph</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2716">India</rs>
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House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2717">Leaden hall Street</rs>
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Gentleman<lb></lb>
taken before me this 8th. day of November 1784</p>
<p n="3995">Who being upon Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3995-1">John Clark</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that on the 27th. of October last a person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3995-2">John<lb></lb>
Collins</rs>
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Reccules, came to this Informants House at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2718">Knightsbridge</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
said, that he was Quarter Master of the Dutchess of Kingstone East<lb></lb>
Indiaman, which then lay at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2719">Blackwall</rs>
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, and was commnanded<lb></lb>
by Capt. Ferguson-That said Reccules told this Informant that<lb></lb>
if he was short of Cash to make up his Payments, with his<lb></lb>
Brewer, or Distiller he could suppley him with a Draft of<lb></lb>
his Captain-that on his Informants saying that he was rather<lb></lb>
short of Money, said Reccules gave to him the Draft or Ordered now<lb></lb>
produced purporting to be the Order of A. Ferguson of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2720">Kensington</rs>
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on <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3995-4">James Murray</rs>
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Esqr. of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2721">Stepney Causeway</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the Payment of Thirty one Pounds ten shillings to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3995-5">John Collins</rs>
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or<del>the</del>
Bearer<lb></lb>
and dated 27th. of October 1784-and which Draft said<lb></lb>
Reccules told this Informant was the Draft of Capt. Ferguson<lb></lb>
of the Dutchess of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2722">Kingston</rs>
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aforesaid-And the said James<lb></lb>
Samerlain says that he was present when said Reccules<lb></lb>
gave said Draft to said Clark and is very sure that the<lb></lb>
Draft now produced in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Draft uttered by said Clark<lb></lb>
as aforesaid-And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3995-6">Robert Relph</rs>
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says that he Felonys<lb></lb>
to the Secretarys Office<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2723">East India House</rs>
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-That<lb></lb>
he hath carefully examined the said Draft and is very<lb></lb>
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