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<p n="1056"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo458">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n1056-1">Thomas Yeats</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo459">Bricklayers Arms<lb></lb>
in Oxford Road</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45001_occ229">Carver</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45001_occ230">Gilder</rs>
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taken before Me one of his Majestys<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid</p>
<p n="1057">Who being on Oath Saith that on Sunday Seven night this Informant being at<lb></lb>
Mr. Witherpools a <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo460">Barbers in Thomas Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo461">Drury Lane</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n1057-1">Catherine Lindon</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
Present Produced a Bank Post bill of twenty Pounds and held the same up in her hand And on this<lb></lb>
Informant asking her how She came by it She told this Informant first that<lb></lb>
She had Picked it up in the Street and that What She found was her own And this<lb></lb>
Informant asking her how it came it was not dirtied She Say'd She Picked it up in a Case<lb></lb>
with other Notes and produced a Note of hand of Six Pounds Six Shillings and<lb></lb>
Say'd that was one of them and that She had been offered four Guineas for the<lb></lb>
last mentioned Note And She Publickly in the Barbers Shop having offered it to<lb></lb>
be discounted oneBlacket Say'd that one Levia Jew would discount it<lb></lb>
for five Shillings in the Pound And this Informant Saith that he cannot<lb></lb>
recollect to whom the said Note was made Payable but that the word (Esqr.)<lb></lb>
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followed after the Persons Name mentioned in the said Note And the<lb></lb>
reason why this Informant questioned her how She came by it was That this<lb></lb>
Informant thought She had Picked it out of some Gentleman Pocket<lb></lb>
that She had laid with</p>
<p n="1058">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45001_date15">20th. day of December<lb></lb>
1756</rs>
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before Me</p>
<p n="1059"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n1059-1">Saunder Welch</rs>
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<p n="1060"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n1060-1">Thos. Yates</rs>
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<lb></lb>
That abovenamed Informant further on his Oath saith That this Information<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
last night in<lb></lb>
Company with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n1060-2">Joseph Groom</rs>
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and two other Persons upon Searching the house where the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n1060-3">Catherine Lindon</rs>
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lodged found the Bank Post bill a No. 5044 Dated the 7th. Decr 1756 for<lb></lb>
twenty Pounds now Produced wrapt up in a Paper and inclosed in a leather bag also now <lb></lb>
Produced to this Informed And this Informant further saith that when the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n1060-4">Catharine<lb></lb>
Lindon</rs>
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Shewed the Bank Post bill abovementioned to this Informant She Pulled it out<lb></lb>
of the Leather bag last mentioned which was so found by this Informant as aforesaid</p>
<p n="1061">Resworn the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45001_date16">22d. day of<lb></lb>
Decr. 1756</rs>
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before Me</p>
<p n="1062"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n1062-1">Saunder Welch</rs>
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<p n="1063"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n1063-1">Thos, Yates</rs>
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