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hard the said two Notes upon the Table this
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Informant
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pled to take them as they were not due but he sayd they were as good as
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the Bank and had but a few days to Run Upon which this Informant asked him if
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they were Alderman Bull's Notes and he answered, Yes, and upon that Averment this
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Informant took them and immediately gave them to the offer Informant John Ohen
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to take to his Banker as Just and the said John Ohen came and told this Informant
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that he was a paid they were bad for they were not Alderman Bull's. That on the 13th of
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March this Informant and John Ohen went to a house accordingly to the directions at
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the bottom of the said Notes when he saw the Person who now calls himself
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Abraham
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and asked him if his name was Bull and he sayd Yes. then this Informant
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went with him into a Compting house and produced to him the said two Notes which he
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took form this Informant reached down a Book and pretented to compare the
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Notes with the Book sayd they were very right and returned him the Notes and say'd
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they would to duly honoured and paid when due on which acceptance and promise
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this Informant relied more particularly as the Accompting house appeared with
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Books and Papers in the stile and manner of a Merchant of Credit. That Yesterday
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being the 18th of March thinking the said Notes to be due this Informant with John
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Ohen went to the said house when all the Books and Papers were removed, where he
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saw the said Person who called himself Bull and tendred the Notes for payment who
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say'd they were not due till the next day. This Informant doth therefore on his Oath
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charge the said Levy Samuel and Abraham Barow on a stong suspicion of
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feloniously and falsely making forging and counterfeiting the said two promisory
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Notes for the payment of the Sum of One hundred pounds each and uttering the some
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as true knowing them to be false forged and Counterfeit with intent to cheat and
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defraud this Informant of the Sum of two hundred Pounds. And this Informant
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John Ohen for himself Saith that he was with the other Informant
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John Mill
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at the
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Coroline Coffee house
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and saw him receive the two Notes abovementioned from the
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said Levy Samuel and by the desire of the said
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took them to this
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Informant's Bankers when the said two Notes were returned to this Informant the
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next day as they thought they were not good. after which this Informant returned them
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to Mr. Mill they went to the house of F. Bull according to the direction of the Note
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and saw the Person now present who now calls himself
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