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About the beginning of March Mr.
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John Bigg
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going wth me to
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Newgate Market
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to buy
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meat ask'd me after I had bargaind to take
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a Glass of Wine; going wth him
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Queens head Tavern
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Pater Noster Row
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after some discourse
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he said he could
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relating
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to some money that I had borrowed of him
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& the time & manner of repaymt. Re said yt.
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if I was not troubl'd wth:
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too Sencpulors
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confeience he could putt me in a method
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how to got money; being desicons of knowing
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it & obliging me to Seecray he propos'd the
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takeing of Indorsemts from Bank Note
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asking him wch
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way he could doe it
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he told me he had a method wch. he would
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not disclose but if I would be concern'd wth
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him he would give me Demonstration & I
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should have a 3d pt of the money got; I
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told him
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answer'd yt. the Guilt of it was of
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so heinous a nature that I would not be stain'd
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wth it & wish'd he had never open'd his
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month to me of it &
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then
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putting him in
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mind of the hazard he run he made
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answer it was but a Pillory buisness to
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wch I
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replyed ye I should as willingly
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nitter death as undergoe such shame when
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he had read this answer he began to fires
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again
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for his money & told me
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my
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he wonder'd I
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would not
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my circumstances & that I Cov'd my case
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I told him he neither knew my circumstancy
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Etc manner of Life & assus'd sum that he should
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