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<p n="911"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo557">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n911-1">Abraham<lb></lb>
Foster</rs>
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servant to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n911-2">Mr Howard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo558">Houndsditch</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ205">Pawnbroker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this 27th. day of<lb></lb>
August 1788</p>
<p n="912">Who being upon Oath says that on Friday last<lb></lb>
about three o' Clock in the Afternoon on the persons<lb></lb>
now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n912-1">Aaron Mendoza</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n912-2">John Balfort</rs>
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came to their Shop together<lb></lb>
to redeem a suit of Cloaths and a Hat which had<lb></lb>
been pledged ley said Mendoza for one Guinea<lb></lb>
that Mendoza produced the duplicate and said<lb></lb>
Balfort produced a Bank Note for Twenty Pounds<lb></lb>
to pay for said Cloaths That Informant asked<lb></lb>
them both their Names when they replied that their<lb></lb>
names were <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n912-3">Jacob Balfort</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n912-4">Aaron Mendoza</rs>
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<lb></lb>
That Informant gave them eighteen Guineas and<lb></lb>
one penny as the Balance due upon said Twenty<lb></lb>
pound Note that they lack took a part of said<lb></lb>
Money and then went away and this Informant<lb></lb>
afterwards the same day sent the Note to the Bank<lb></lb>
That Yesterday said Mendoza asked this Informant<lb></lb>
what he had done with said twenty pound Note<lb></lb>
that Informant told him he had sent it to the<lb></lb>
Bank the same day Thathe then asked of<lb></lb>
Informant</p>
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