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London Taken
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upon Oath before me Sir Sampson
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Wright One of His Majesty's Justices
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of the Peace in and for the said County
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this fourth Day of December 1786.
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The Informant Decimus Hayward for
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himself saith that the Letter which arrived from the
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London on Friday
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the Twentieth of October last for Places within the
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Delivery of the said South Penny Post Office were
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o'Clock at Noon on that Day from the Chief Penny
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that about Two o'Clock in the Afternoon said
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Gibbs shewed this Informant a Letter directed
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him it was not for Fawcett & Co. of Vauxhall
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& desired this
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upon it that
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this Informant did so and then gave it back
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to said Gibbs
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for
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himself saith that on receiving back from the
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Informant Hayward the letter above described
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he
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