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<p n="10"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15032_geo6">London</rs>
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ss.</note>
The Examination of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15032_n10-1">William<lb></lb>
Fitch</rs>
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this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15032_date5">27th. of December 1720</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="11">That He this Examinant confesses himself<lb></lb>
concerned with One <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15032_n11-6">Wm. Andus</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
counterfeiting a Letter and Bill from <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15032_n11-7">Gabri:<lb></lb>
:el Whitaker</rs>
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to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15032_n11-1">John Huxley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15032_occ4">Grocer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in Wood street for 4:14:6 And<lb></lb>
<lb></lb>
This Examinant further says that one Wm. Andus<lb></lb>
some time since came to this Examinant and<lb></lb>
told him. that as He ye Examinant had occasion for money<lb></lb>
that the would put him into a way of sd<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
:ting it, and then advised ye Examint. to<lb></lb>
write a Letter in ye name of Gabriel Whita:<lb></lb>
:ker that He the sd. Gabriel had drawn a<lb></lb>
Bill upon Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15032_n11-2">John Huxley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15032_occ5">Grocer</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15032_geo7">Woodstreet</rs>
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for 4:14:6 to be paid at sight<lb></lb>
and accordingly ye Examinant did write saith<lb></lb>
a Letter to Mr. Huxley which was signed<lb></lb>
in <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15032_n11-3">Gabriel Whitaker</rs>
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's Name by ye sd. Wm. Audas<lb></lb>
and afterwards the sd. Wm. Audas put the<lb></lb>
Marke & Stampe of ye Post three upon<lb></lb>
the sd. Letter, and than this<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Examinant<lb></lb>
carried ye sd. Letter to a Plumber's in Wood:<lb></lb>
:street, and left it wch. an Apprentice of<lb></lb>
the sd. Plumber's to be given to the Letter<lb></lb>
carrier as soon as the came into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15032_geo8">Woodstreet</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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to be delivered by ye letter Carry in Mr. Huxley<lb></lb>
and this Examinant further says, that the<lb></lb>
Sd. Wm. Audus also<obscured></obscured>
the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15032_n11-4">Gabriel<lb></lb>
Whitaker</rs>
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to the Bill, and that if<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Bill had,<lb></lb>
been said by Mr. Huxley that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15032_n11-5">Wm. Andus</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
to have had part of the Money</p>
<p n="12">Capt Vicesso Sepmo<lb></lb>
die Xmbro 1720<lb></lb>
Cor Moithers</p>
<p n="13">W: Fitch</p>
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