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And this Informant
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William Jones
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for himself saith
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that about six or seven Weeks ago, the prisoner Owen came
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to this Informants House and desired to leave a Trunk for a day or two
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as he was going to a Place in
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, and then asked him
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to lend him half a Guinea, this Informant offered him first a
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which Owen declined taken and then lent him
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half a Guinea and in the Afternoon Owen brought his
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Trunk and left it at this Informant'
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saying that
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he was then going to his place, says that Owen came
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several times to this Informants Home, and they conversed
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together in such a Way as for this Informant to understand
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that Owen was in Places,
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And this Informant for this saith that on or just before
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the first of March prisoner Owen borrowed of this Informant
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another half Guinea, in Order to bear his Expence, on the
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first day of March, which is kept as a Festival by the
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Welch,& Owen then declared he would endeavour to pay
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Informant by the Sunday following if he could, says that
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he this Informant then and for several Weeks afterwards
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understood that Owen was
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in his place in Bond
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Street says that about three weeks afterwards Owen
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came to this Informants House, and remained there about
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two Hours ask'd this Informant if he could lend him
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any more money,
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who answered that he had no
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other money, them a few half pence he Pwen came the
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next morning & was denied
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being
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having any money lent
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to him; says that he did not see Owen for a week after
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this, and then only to shift his Clothes that he appeared
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and as if affronted at something, says that
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Owen once apologized for its not being in his power to pay
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the Guineas which Jones, in Answer, said
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it would be
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very aneptable as he was always in want of its say
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that Owen
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now called at this Informants House sold over
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than he used to do and insomuch that this Informant from
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his Conduct began to suspect he was not in the place
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in Bond Streets says that about a fortnight ago Owen called
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at this Informants House and sat about an bom, and to this
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Informant then ask'd Owen for the Guinea, Owen said that
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he had a bad Debt which he expected to received, & he would
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call and pay this Informant either the latter End of that
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Week or the beginning of the nextSays, that on
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