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The Information of Thomas Beszant Clerk to<lb></lb>
Messrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n234-1">Martin Stone</rs>
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Foote and Porter Bankers in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo152">Lombard Street</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n234-2">Richard Hill</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo153">Southampton</rs>
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Street<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo154">Bloomsbury</rs>
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Manufactorer of Snuff <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n234-3">John Baverstock</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo155">St. Pauls Church Yard</rs>
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China Man: <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n234-4">Martha Baverstock</rs>
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Wife of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n234-5">John Baverstock</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n234-6">Daniel Adams</rs>
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Junior Clerk to Messrs. Moffatt Hensingtons Boler<lb></lb>
and Company taken on Oath before me this<lb></lb>
6th. day of May 1789</p>
<p n="235">Who being on Oath severally say and first the said Thomas Beszant<lb></lb>
for himself says that on the 28th. day of March last the Draft now<lb></lb>
produced purporting to be the Draft of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n235-1">Richard Hill</rs>
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on Messrs.<lb></lb>
Martin, Stone, Foote and Porter payable to Mr I Flood or bearer<lb></lb>
Dated London the 27th. day of March 1789 for Sixty Pounds same<lb></lb>
brought for payment that he this Informant paid the same<lb></lb>
in the following manner (Vizt.) one Bank note No 5205 dated<lb></lb>
the 29th. Novr. 1788. for Ten pounds No 4629 the 10th June 1788<lb></lb>
£10. No 2988. dated 7th. Jany 1789 £10. No 406 the 16th. Sepr.<lb></lb>
1788 £10. and Twenty pounds in East And this Informant<lb></lb>
further says that to the best of his knowledge and belief the said Draft to was<lb></lb>
presented for payment by a person now present who calls<lb></lb>
himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n235-2">David Coleman</rs>
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& who received the said Bank notes and<lb></lb>
Cash for the Same. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n235-3">Richard Hill</rs>
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for himself says<lb></lb>
that he has kept Cash for may Years at the House of the said<lb></lb>
Messrs. Martin, Stone<del>and</del>
Foote, and Porter and that he is very<lb></lb>
sure the Draft abovementioned for Sixty pounds is not of<lb></lb>
his hand Writing And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n235-4">John Baverstock</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
Says that the person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n235-5">David Coleman</rs>
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