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London.</note>
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<p n="485">The King agt. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n485-1">James Elliott</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo389">Denmark Court</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo390">the Strand</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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maketh Oath and saith that on the Sixteenth day of June last the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n486-2">James Elliott</rs>
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was committed to the Gaol of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo392">Newgate</rs>
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for feloniously and falsely<lb></lb>
making forging and counterfeiting in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo393">City of London</rs>
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a certain Promissory<lb></lb>
Note for the Pay ment of Money Purporting to be the Promissory Note of the<lb></lb>
Governor and Company of the Bank of England for Payment of Fifty Pounds<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n486-3">Joseph Crook</rs>
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or Bearer on Demand dated June 20 1775With Intention<lb></lb>
to defrand hisMajesty's Subjects And this Deponent further saith that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n486-5">James Elliott</rs>
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was apprehended and taken for the Felony saith that the said<lb></lb>
by this Deponent at Dover in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo394">County of Kent</rs>
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and that he this Deponent<lb></lb>
found in the Custody of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n486-6">James Elliott</rs>
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at the time of his being so<lb></lb>
apprehended and taken the Promissory Note mentioned in the said<lb></lb>
Commitment And this Deponent further saith that he is advised and verily<lb></lb>
beleives that the Felony and Forgery charged against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n486-8">James Elliott</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said Commitment was perpetrated in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo395">County of Kent</rs>
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and not in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo396">City of London</rs>
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<p n="487">Sworn at Justicehall in the Old<lb></lb>
Bailey London the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15088_date58">Fifth day of<lb></lb>
July 1777</rs>
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By the Court</p>
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