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Maketh Oath That on or about the
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Eighth day of February last The Post Boy carrying the
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West Mail of Letters from the
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aforesaid to Stainer in the
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was Attacked and Robbed near
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in the
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said County by a Single High wayman on Horseback
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who look from the said Post Boy and carried off the Exeter
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and Plymouth Bags of Letters as this Deponent has
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been informed and does verily believe And this Depont
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further Saith That he has been informed and does
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verily believe that there were several Letters in the
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said Baggs containing Bank Notes Bank Post Bills
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and Bills of Exchange to a large Amount particularly
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in one Letter Bank Post Bill to the value of Five
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hundred pounds for the use of the poor Sufferers by fire
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at Creditors and in another Letter Bills of Exchange
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Drawn from abroad on several Merchants in London
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to the Amount of Two thousand three hundred pounds
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and upwards and in another Letter a Bank Note for
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the Sum of
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Twenty pounds which said several
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Letters with the said several Bills, inclosed were as this
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Deponent verily believes put into
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and
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were in the Exeter and Plymouth Bags at the time
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they were taken from the Post Boy at the time the
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said Bags were taken from him in the manner afsd
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And this Deponent further Saith That the said Anne
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Mathews the
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was sometime age apprehended
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for offering to pass Several
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of the said Bank Bills of Exchange or other Bills and for
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Disposing of one of the said Bank Notes as this Deponent
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has been informed and does verily believe And
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