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<p n="512">On August ye 24: 1785 <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n512-1">Henry More</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n512-2">John Houghton</rs>
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entire Straingers to me came and said that for the sum of ten<lb></lb>
Guineas they would take me out of the Prison of the<lb></lb>
fleet where I am now a prisoner I told them I had been a<lb></lb>
Bankrupt and that I had Conform'd my self to all the Cla<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
now in force against Bankrupts, they said that by Summons<lb></lb>
my Plantiff or his Attorneys before a Baron of the<obscured></obscured>
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as my Action is in that Court, they would by<obscured></obscured>
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me my discharge, on the 24 day of August<obscured></obscured>
said Henry<obscured></obscured>
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six Shillings for three Summons as he said he must serve the<lb></lb>
Summons's one on the Clerk in Court, one on the Attorneys<lb></lb>
one on the Plantiff, on the 25 of August, they Came a Second<lb></lb>
time and said that they had attended at the Barons Chamber<lb></lb>
and every thing was right and that I must give them Eaight<lb></lb>
Shillings for the Second Summons's wick I paid, on August<lb></lb>
the 26 they Came a gain for six Shillings for the third<lb></lb>
Summons's wick I paid, the said that they Summons's all had<lb></lb>
been regular served and that Mess: Ayrton & Davis the<lb></lb>
Plantiffs attorneys, said that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n512-5">John Pennington</rs>
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the Plantiff<lb></lb>
was indebted to them a Sum of Money, and that they would<lb></lb>
not trouble themselves in the Matter in Question, on Augst.<lb></lb>
ye 30 they Came again for Money to purchase a Stamp to<lb></lb>
Make a Afferdavit on for wick I paid them one Shilling and<lb></lb>
seven pence, they then said that they must have half a Crown<lb></lb>
to have the Afferdavit ingrosed wick I paid, they then said that<lb></lb>
as the Baron was down in the Country that It would for<lb></lb>
Coach Hire, Barons Clerk, and Expences, they Could not go if<lb></lb>
I did not pay them two Guineas wick I did, but ever since<lb></lb>
I paid them the two Guineas I have not seen them, I have<lb></lb>
sent sent to Mr. Walker, Baron Hotham's Clerk and that I<lb></lb>
find they took out only one Summons for wick<obscured></obscured>
aid<lb></lb>
only two Shillings</p>
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