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<p n="467"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo359">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n467-1">Peter Weldon</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15088_date52">14th. day of June 1777</rs>
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<p n="468">Who being upon Oath Says that he knows <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-1">Elizabeth Brooks</rs>
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<lb></lb>
otherwise <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-123">Barker</rs>
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otherwise <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-812">Magniness</rs>
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, that he sas in her Possession<lb></lb>
three Copper Plates on one of which was engraved the part of<lb></lb>
a Bank Note for £100. on another part of Bank Note for £50<lb></lb>
and on the third part of Bank Note for £20, that he was<lb></lb>
present when the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-2">Elizabeth Brooks</rs>
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otherwise <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-223">Magniness</rs>
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<lb></lb>
otherwise Barker sold the said three Copper Plates to James<lb></lb>
Elliott for ten Guineas at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo360">the King's head</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo361">Little East cheap</rs>
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<lb></lb>
about three Months ago, that before the said Plates were sold<lb></lb>
the Blanks found at Mrs. Brooker's in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo362">Capter Lane</rs>
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for £50 Bank Notes<lb></lb>
were printed off one of the said Plates by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-3">Robert Ryland</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-4">Elizabeth Brooks</rs>
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by way of Proof that as Ryland<lb></lb>
had<del>taken</del>
printed off the said Blanks for the said Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Brooks the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-7">James Elliott</rs>
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after he had purchased the<lb></lb>
Plates desired this Informant to Speak to the said Ryland to<lb></lb>
print some more off for the said Elliott, that he accordingly<lb></lb>
went to Ryland and asked him to do it, that Ryland consenting<lb></lb>
he this Informant introduced the said James Elliott to the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-10">Robert Ryland</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo363">the Pyed Bill</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo364">Fleet Ditch</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-11">James Elliott</rs>
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delivered to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n468-12">Robert Ryland</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
this Informant's Prosecute two of the said Copper Plates<lb></lb>
Viz. that for £50 Bank Notes and that for £20 Bank<lb></lb>
Notes together with some Paper, that the next day the said</p>
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