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7th December 1765 - 17th December 1766

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Image 7 of 15531st December 1766


Middx To wit


The Information of Elizabeth Burk< no role >
taken before me this 31st. day of Decr. 1766

Who being on Oath says that on the beginning
of last August, which she believes to be about the
9th. or 10th. she followed a Person now present who
calls himself William Lloyd< no role > , one William Richardson< no role >
lately Executed, and Mr. James Peisley< no role > , Clerk to a
Proctor in Doctor's Commons to the India House
Where She saw the said Lloyd receive two Bank
Notes by Virtue of the Probate of a Will which
he produced to a Gentleman now presentproduced who
calls himself Ynyr Burges< no role > , purporting to be the
Probate of a Will of a Seaman in the Service of
the East India Company; says that she afterwards
went with said Lloyd, and said Peisley to the
Bank where Cash was obtained for the said Notes;
says that they then went to a Tavern near the
Bank, where said Lloyd paid for said Probate, and
gave said Peisley five Shillings for his
trouble; says that she remembers said Probate
related to a Seaman who died on Board the
Boscawen, said to be employed [..] in the
Honourable the East Company Service.

Sworn the Day
and Year first
above Written
before me
J Holding

her
Elizabeth [mark] Burk< no role >
Mark




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