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his late Servant
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Herbert Mackworth
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Justices of the Peace
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fourteenth day of December One
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thousand seven hundred and eighty
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four
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John Child
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Saith That on Monday
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the eighth day of March last he inclosed in a Letter
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directed to Messrs. Holmer and Co: at their Steel Yard in
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London One half Share of a Lottery Ticket
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in the Lottery of the Year 1783 Numbered 3m 989 and
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One Quarter Share of a Lottery Ticket in the Lottery of the
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same Year 1783 Numbered 28m 152 that he sealed
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the Letters and about the Hour of Eleven o'Clock in the
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Morning of the same Eighth day of March last and then
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delivered the same into the Hands of the said Martha
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Gibbon And the said
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Martha Gibbon
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Saith that
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immediately on Receipt of the same she delivered the said
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Letter whole and unaltered and Under Seal as she
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received the same from the said
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into the
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Elizabeth Thomas
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the Post Office
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in Neath
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aforesaid And the said
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John Child
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further Saith he
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believes that the said Letters was duly forwarded from
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the said Post Office in Neath And that the same was
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never delivered to Messrs. Holmer and Co to whom
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directed but was feloniously Stolen by some
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Person
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