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have his money in May or June he stell
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presd me & desir'd I would come up to his
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house at 3 a Clock at wch. time he would
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get me to goe to the Bane & receives
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money of a Note & said he would demonstrate
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how That he could
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to got
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money by takeing the Indorsemt
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on his imperturity I told him of
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would come up meaning only thereby to get sd
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of his company) wch by that means I did &
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a Porter yt
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breifness had hapte'd
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& I couldnt
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possibly come up
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Seeing him about 9 days after he askd
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me why I would not come I told him
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I had taller consider'd of ye matter & was resolvd
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never to be concern'd & advis'd him to
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Desist from such can under taking wth broke
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of all Talk of ye matter at ye time after
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this & before ye 2d of Aprill he moke
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again to me of it & had ye same Answer
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Coming to his house on satterday ye 2d of Aprill
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to ask him to sap wth me at
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Freinds house on a Hare Reg consented
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mentiond the affair again in So Pauls
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Church Yard & Shew'd me a Note wch. I
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took to be a bank Note but afterwoods
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found it a swrod blade Companys Note
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wch he had
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out of wth. he said & Shewd me
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that he had taken a letters of red Ink
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from of black letters & coulo take out the
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whole Indorsemt. I bid him speak no further
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of it
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ther for on Tuesday I would come
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to him by wch. time I would fully determine
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what to doe in ye affair & this I did
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intentionally to take advice whether I
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should discover him or no
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On Sunday
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in ye Evening going to a
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Freind in whom I had a confidence I
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discover'd to him how I had been attempted to be
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cormpted & desir'd his advice in the affair
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particularly upon the a difficulty I was under
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of being an Informet agst. a person I had
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some Intimacy wth
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upon the whole
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my Heinds advice was that I should
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nert aske in ye Guilt It I did not discover
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wch consenting to my Freind said he would
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mention it the next morning to Mr Deston
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wth whom he was accquainted & did accordingly.
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doe to
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& return'd telling
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me yt Mr. Diston & he thought that it
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was necessary for ye better discovery of the
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matter to goe to him on Tuesday & feign
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to come into it; in order to be witness of
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an expenmt.
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I went to
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his house & on his mentioning it, to me
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again I desirt to see how he did it when
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he took me up in his closet & shew'o
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one of wch
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he told he had cat
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was fair
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to the sight yet he told me the he had taken
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