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The King against
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Linnen Draper
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John Elderton
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make Oath and first the said
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Saith that a Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain
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having issued on the second day of November last past against the said
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and he being declared a
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this Deponent and
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John Webb
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Partner
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on the Twenty first of the same November were duly Chosen Assignees
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of the said
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Estate and Effects And this Deponent soon afterwards
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went to
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in the
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Where the Bankrupt resided in Order
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to make the most Moneys he could of the said Bankrupt Effects And this
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Deponent saith That the Bankrupts Stock in Trade seized by the Messenger
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under the said Commission were appraised at the Sum of One hundred twenty one
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Pounds Nineteen Shillings and three pence half penny for which Sum or
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there abouts they were after wards Sold And this Deponent Saith that he was
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much surprized at the Smallness of the said Bankrupts Estate and on Conversing
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with some of the said Bankrupts Neigbours they intimated to Deponent that they
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believed unfair practices had been Used and Embeillments made the said
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Bankrupt or his Family Whereupon this Deponent caused an Advertisement to
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be inserted in the White hall Evening Post Offering a Reward to such Persons who
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could give Information to the Sollicitors under the said Commission of any such
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Concealments And the said Deponent
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John Elderton
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one of the Sollicitors
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under the said
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Commissions Saith that on or about the fourteenth of December last he Did receive in
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consequence of such Advertisement a Letter from one
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Stephen Fowler
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Bighton
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near
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informing him and Mr. Nernon his Partner of
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divers Goods and Effects which had been left with the said Fowler by the Bankrupts
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wife before the Date of the said Commission and which still remained in his Custody
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and the Contents of which Letter both Deponents say they beleive to be true and the
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said Deponent
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Saith that on the Eighteenth day of December last
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past the said Bankrupts finished his Examination before the Major Part of the
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Commissioners named in the said Commission at Guildhall London at which
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time the said Bankrupt did not deliver in any Account of the several Goods
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mentioned in the said Letter or any part thereof Or of any other Goods Wares or Effects
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whatsoever save and Except such as were included in the Inventory taken by the
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Messengers and which were Appraised and sold for the Sum of One hundred
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twenty One Pounds Nineteen Shillings and three pence half penny or thereabouts
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as aforesaid And although the said Bankrupt had as this Deponent has heard
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and believes been a
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for near twenty Years and during that time had
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dealt very largely in the
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he produced to the said
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