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<p n="590"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo440">MIDDLESEX</rs>
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COMMITMENTS.</p>
<p n="591">money, purporting to be the promissory note of the Governor and Com-<lb></lb>
pany of the Bank of England, for payment of £.20 to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n591-1">George Freeborn</rs>
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<lb></lb>
or hearer on demand, dated May 2, 1773, with intention to defraud the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n591-2">Edward Thompson</rs>
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. Dated June 9, 1777.</p>
<p n="592">Detained on oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n592-1">Henry Secker</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n592-2">John Quinby</rs>
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, and others, for feloni-<lb></lb>
ously uttering and publishing as true, knowing it to be falsely made,<lb></lb>
forged and counterfeited,a certain promissory note for payment of mo-<lb></lb>
ney, purporting to be the promissory note of the Governor and Company<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo441">Bank of England</rs>
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for payment of £.20 to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n592-3">Nathaniel Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ211">Esq</rs>
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;<lb></lb>
or bearer on demand, dated May 5, 1773, with intention to defraud the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n592-4">Henry Secker</rs>
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, in the county of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo442">Surry</rs>
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. Dated June 9, 1777.</p>
<p n="593">Detained on oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n593-1">Thomas Gasquoine</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n593-132">William Callan</rs>
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, for feloni-<lb></lb>
ously uttering and publishing as true, in the county of Surry, knowing it<lb></lb>
to be falsely made, forged and counterfeited, a certain promissory note for<lb></lb>
payment of money, purporting to be the promissory note of the Governor<lb></lb>
and Company of the Bank of England for<obscured></obscured>
payment of £.20 to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n593-212">Tho-<lb></lb>
mas Harris</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ212">Esq</rs>
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; or bearer on demand, dated May 5, 1773, with intent<lb></lb>
to defraud the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n593-3">Thomas Gasquoine</rs>
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. Dated June 9, 1777.</p>
<p n="594">10 <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n594-1">Ann Burton</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n594-2">Elizabeth Garman</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n594-3">Sarah Page</rs>
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,}<lb></lb>
committed by J. Croft, Esq; on oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n594-4">Henry<lb></lb>
Woollen</rs>
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, for stealing 2s. a silver knee-buckle,<lb></lb>
and a pair of stockings, his property. Dated<lb></lb>
June 9, 1777.</p>
<p n="595">11 <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n595-321">Michael Quorkan</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n595-312">Hugh Quorkan</rs>
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committed by <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ213">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n595-1">John Fielding</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ214">Knt</rs>
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. and S. Wright,<lb></lb>
Esq; on oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n595-2">Walter Dawson</rs>
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, and on the certifi-<lb></lb>
cate of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n595-3">Thomas Forrest</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ215">deputy-clerk of the Crown</rs>
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for the county of<lb></lb>
Monaghan, in the kingdom of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo443">Ireland</rs>
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; for that they, the said Michael<lb></lb>
Quorkan and Hugh Quorkan, are indicted as of Lent assizes 1776,<lb></lb>
for the traiterously killing and murdering <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n595-82">Arthur Woods</rs>
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, in the laid<lb></lb>
county of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo444">Monaghan</rs>
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in the kingdom of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo445">Ireland</rs>
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, and have not since ap-<lb></lb>
peared in order to stand their trial for the said crime: dated June 13, 1777.<lb></lb>
Were, on the 19th day of June, 1777, by virtue of a warrant under the<lb></lb>
hand of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Weymouth, delivered to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n595-812">Edward<lb></lb>
Mann</rs>
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, one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ216">messengers</rs>
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, to be by him conveyed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo446">Dublin</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="596">12 <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n596-1">George Higgins</rs>
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, committed by J. Barnfather and J. Croft, Esqrs. on oath<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n596-3">Elizabeth Benfield</rs>
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, for violently assaulting, beating and bruising her,<lb></lb>
for want of sureties. Dated June 12, 1777.</p>
<p n="597">13 <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n597-1">Charlotte Sprigmore</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n597-2">Esther Moore</rs>
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committed by J. Sherwood and J. Clark, Esqrs.<lb></lb>
on oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n597-5">William Jeffery</rs>
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, for stealing 2 guineas<lb></lb>
his property. Dated June 14, 1777.</p>
<p n="598">14 <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n598-1">James Elliott</rs>
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, committed by <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ217">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n598-2">John Fielding</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ218">Knt</rs>
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. on oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n598-812">Robert<lb></lb>
Ryland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n598-4">John Clark</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n598-5">Peter Welden</rs>
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, for feloniously and falsely mak-<lb></lb>
ing, forging and counterfeiting, in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo447">city of London</rs>
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, a certain promis-<lb></lb>
sory note for the payment of money, purporting to be the promissory<lb></lb>
note of the Governor and Company of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo448">Bank of England</rs>
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for payment<lb></lb>
of £.50 to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n598-6">Joseph Crook</rs>
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or bearer on demand, dated June 20, 1775.<lb></lb>
with intention to defraud his Majesty's subjects. Dated June 16, 1777.</p>
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