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29th September 1728 - 20th May 1729

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To Mr John Purdy< no role > of ye. pepper Cellar under ye Rayal Exchange
Sr. Mr. Peter Chevalier< no role > at present a prisoner in Newgte for a debt of £23.5s.2d.
Not due these Several months, to ye plantiff Thos. Yallowly< no role > of Finsbury Moorfields
Sadler, who together with his wife Mary Chevalier< no role > have Conbind to Ruin my sd. Client
and Detain between them upwards of £403.. In Ready money, said yallowly &
Morgage upwards of £160 on a Messuage known by ye. name of ye .Red lyon
in Mare Street Hackney, beside three Trunks full of Considerable goods also [..]
Boxes the one Markd. Pc. N. 3.. Containing one sadle, part of ye. Goods of Debt
above mentiond. and £7..0..0.. & upward of my said Chints goods [..] said
yallowlys. sadle and packed up by sd. yallowlys. own hands & offerd [..]
the same in part of what my sd. Client is now under arr [..]
yallowly the maker thereof, for Reasons that will appear in a [..]
Lastly all my said Clients Plate Jewells Etc and beside all that above recited
a note of yours Mr. John Purdy< no role > originally Drawn by Tony Med hurst of
Norwich Weaver accepted and paid by my said Client Peter Chevalier< no role > & for [..]
have Lately arrested been Tess: Wm. Tims Genl: in Wood Street and as a [..]
Informd. make your beast to wrong my said Client by ye. act Expected for the [..]
Relief of Insolvents, To this Mr. Purdy John you have added & assosiat [..]
your whole familly, some Excepted, in Order to perpetrate your hell [..]
(Viz) you have had ye. assurance to frequent his house in Moorfields And
There out, trust his Servant Henry Bradshaw< no role > , and in his presence
Perused what papers of his you Could Come at, and said Servt. being their
Servt from my sd. Client for necessaries of Life, you sold and Ordered my
said Clients wife your Daughter to send nothing, that you with Insuportable
Impudence Contradicted my sd. Clients Orders given to his Badesmen
Particularly at a peruke maker near Stocks Market Etc. Telling them
my sd. Client Chevalier was determined to Cheat all he Could & then Run away
and that for Certain my said Client was Raving mad, And to Compleat the
Measure of your Malice did acqt. Mr. Mackrel Clark to a Genl: in Alderman
bury , that my said Client kept 30 men in Livery & Coach and Six Etc.
and To Confirm sd. falshood added yt. my said Client treated his sd. 30 Servt.
in an Expensive manner at ye. Bufflirs head Tavern Treadnealdle Street
besides several articles needless to mention of wch. my client has Credi [..]
Persons to prove

That these false & Groundless Reports have been
Spread by your Industrious malice I Leave my Client [..]
Chevalier to Justifye
Yours T. Teltrath

Father In Law I request that hense forth you do not presumes
To Enter my house In Moorfield or any other I have any part [..]
shall answer ye. Contrary at your peril for I Design to prosecute you

But being willing To Lenity, before Extremity, I therefore des [..]
that as you shall know. ye Orriginall of the Unhappy Difference subsi [..]
Between us your Children and Inflamd. & Increased to ye. height ha [..]
Brought it To, For your own sake Reflect on ye. Consequence that
must attend, if not Timely presented




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