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<p n="1378"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1254">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1378-1">John<lb></lb>
Cowce </rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ547">Clerk</rs>
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to Messrs. Hinchliff<lb></lb>
and Hollyer of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45037_geo1255">Love Lane<lb></lb>
Cheapside</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45037_occ548">Refiners</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 28 day of<lb></lb>
October 1788</p>
<p n="1379">Who being upon Oath says that on Wednesday the<lb></lb>
15th. of this instant October <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45037_n1379-1">Robert Cooper</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
present brought to the House of Messrs. Hinchliff<lb></lb>
and Hollyer One Bar or Ingot of Silver<lb></lb>
weighing about One Hundred and two Ounces<lb></lb>
and left the same to be Assayed that during the<lb></lb>
time this Informant was weighing said Bar or<lb></lb>
Ingot he asked said Cooper if he was a Silversmith<lb></lb>
who replied he was not that Informant then<lb></lb>
asked said Cooper who melted it for him and he<lb></lb>
replied it was Melted at Messrs. Perkins & Spencer's<lb></lb>
who had recommended him to Messrs. Hinchliff<lb></lb>
and Hollyer to sell it and added that he had<lb></lb>
been before recommended by Messrs. Perkins<lb></lb>
and Spencer to Messrs. Hinchliff and Hollyer<lb></lb>
to sell some light Guineas That said Cooper</p>
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