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<p n="35">The King against <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15071_n36-10">James<lb></lb>
Aldridge</rs>
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<p n="36"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15071_n36-1">Serenus Barrett</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15071_geo38">Newgate Street</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15071_occ33">Linnen Draper</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15071_n36-2">John Elderton</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15071_geo39">Featherstone Buildings Holborn</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15071_occ34">Gentleman</rs>
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make Oath and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15071_n36-3">Serenus Barrett</rs>
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Saith that a Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain<lb></lb>
having issued on the second day of November last past against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15071_n36-8">James<lb></lb>
Aldridge</rs>
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and he being declared a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15071_occ35">Bankrupt</rs>
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this Deponent and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15071_n36-5">John Webb</rs>
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his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15071_occ36">Partner</rs>
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on the Twenty first of the same November were duly Chosen Assignees<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15071_occ37">Bankrupt</rs>
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Estate and Effects And this Deponent soon afterwards<lb></lb>
went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15071_geo40">Westborne</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15071_geo41">County of Sussex</rs>
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Where the Bankrupt resided in Order<lb></lb>
to make the most Moneys he could of the said Bankrupt Effects And this<lb></lb>
Deponent saith That the Bankrupts Stock in Trade seized by the Messenger<lb></lb>
under the said Commission were appraised at the Sum of One hundred twenty one<lb></lb>
Pounds Nineteen Shillings and three pence half penny for which Sum or<lb></lb>
there abouts they were after wards Sold And this Deponent Saith that he was<lb></lb>
much surprized at the Smallness of the said Bankrupts Estate and on Conversing<lb></lb>
with some of the said Bankrupts Neigbours they intimated to Deponent that they<lb></lb>
believed unfair practices had been Used and Embeillments made the said<lb></lb>
Bankrupt or his Family Whereupon this Deponent caused an Advertisement to<lb></lb>
be inserted in the White hall Evening Post Offering a Reward to such Persons who<lb></lb>
could give Information to the Sollicitors under the said Commission of any such<lb></lb>
Concealments And the said Deponent <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15071_n36-6">John Elderton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15071_occ38">one of the Sollicitors</rs>
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under the said<lb></lb>
Commissions Saith that on or about the fourteenth of December last he Did receive in<lb></lb>
consequence of such Advertisement a Letter from one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15071_n36-7">Stephen Fowler</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15071_geo42">Bighton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15071_geo43">Alresford</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15071_geo44">County of Hants</rs>
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informing him and Mr. Nernon his Partner of<lb></lb>
divers Goods and Effects which had been left with the said Fowler by the Bankrupts<lb></lb>
wife before the Date of the said Commission and which still remained in his Custody<lb></lb>
and the Contents of which Letter both Deponents say they beleive to be true and the<lb></lb>
said Deponent <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15071_n36-9">Serenus Barrett</rs>
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Saith that on the Eighteenth day of December last<lb></lb>
past the said Bankrupts finished his Examination before the Major Part of the<lb></lb>
Commissioners named in the said Commission at Guildhall London at which<lb></lb>
time the said Bankrupt did not deliver in any Account of the several Goods<lb></lb>
mentioned in the said Letter or any part thereof Or of any other Goods Wares or Effects<lb></lb>
whatsoever save and Except such as were included in the Inventory taken by the<lb></lb>
Messengers and which were Appraised and sold for the Sum of One hundred<lb></lb>
twenty One Pounds Nineteen Shillings and three pence half penny or thereabouts<lb></lb>
as aforesaid And although the said Bankrupt had as this Deponent has heard<lb></lb>
and believes been a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15071_occ39">Shopkeeper</rs>
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for near twenty Years and during that time had<lb></lb>
dealt very largely in the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15071_occ40">Linnen and Haber dashery Trades</rs>
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he produced to the said</p>
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