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<p n="145"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15073_geo147">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15073_n145-1">Joseph Cotton</rs>
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at Mr. Partridges in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15073_geo148">Aldermanbury</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15073_date40">3d. day of<lb></lb>
Sepr. 1762</rs>
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<p n="146">Who being upon Oath says that on Saturday last the 28th.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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of Augt. he received by a Porter a Letter dated Woodford from the above<lb></lb>
Mr. Partridge as he then imagined, which Letter contained<lb></lb>
a Draft on Mr. Partridges Banker for £1000 and also<lb></lb>
a<del>Draft</del>
Bill upon Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15073_n146-2">Saml. Fludyer</rs>
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for £350, says that<lb></lb>
it has since appeared that the said Draft and the said Bill<lb></lb>
were both Forged and Counterfeited with Intent to Defraud<lb></lb>
the said Mr. Partridge, says that in the above Lre. he this<lb></lb>
Informt. was desired to receive the Money for the above Draft<lb></lb>
in Bank himself, and to leave the Bank Note at the Barr of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15073_geo149">Sams Coffee House</rs>
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for Mr. Rouse, says that the same Evening he<lb></lb>
Paid in the said Draft at Messrs. Amyands & Co. Bankers<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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and a recd a Bank Note for £1000 for it and left it at<lb></lb>
the Barr of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15073_geo150">Sams Coffee House</rs>
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the next day about one o'Clock<lb></lb>
and has since been informed that it was delivered to a Porter<lb></lb>
about four the same day, says that one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15073_n146-3">Joseph Kello</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15073_occ83">Clerk</rs>
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to Mr. Moore of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15073_geo151">Lothbury</rs>
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, on the Thursday before this Transaction<lb></lb>
asked this Informt. to lett him see Mr. Partridges Bankers Book<lb></lb>
which he did & by which he<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
saw that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Mr. Partridge had<lb></lb>
between<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
two and three Thousand Pounds in his Bankers hands, and that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15073_n146-7">Jos: Kellow</rs>
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behaved in other respects in so suspicious<lb></lb>
a manner as to give this Informt. great reason to suspect that<lb></lb>
he was concerned in forging<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
& Publishing the aforesaid Draft<lb></lb>
and Bill, and that said Kello is now in Custody for the same<lb></lb>
and this Informt. farther says that he likewise Knows <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15073_n146-8">John<lb></lb>
Kello</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15073_occ84">Brother</rs>
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to the said Joseph, who<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
is a Man of a very<lb></lb>
bad Character, that he was a Constant Companion<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
to his said<lb></lb>
Brother, and says that upon enquiry he has found and</p>
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