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<p n="45">The King on the prosecution of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50767_n45-1">Thomas Cussoms</rs>
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Esquire<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50767_n45-2">John Freeman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50767_n45-3">Paul Pickersgill</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50767_n45-4">Henry Nelthropp</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50767_n45-5">Joseph Harris</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50767_n45-6">Joseph Collins</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
Misdemeanor</p>
<p n="46">The above Deft stand Indicted for a Conspiracy and Fraud<lb></lb>
in Obtaining from the above <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50767_n46-1">Thos. Cussans</rs>
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3 Several Notes of<lb></lb>
Hand value £1000 under the pretence of Discounting the Same<lb></lb>
but instead of Giving him the Money as they promised to 80. They Gave<lb></lb>
him of their own Notes Derted 28th: March 1783 at 12 days after date<lb></lb>
which they told him wered as good as Money or Bank Notes The above<lb></lb>
persons lately Set up a Money Office No. 77 Chairing Cross & used to<lb></lb>
Advertise in the Morning Papers to Advance Money to Noblemen Gentlemen<lb></lb>
a persons of Repute upon their Own Security & to discount Bills at 5 P<lb></lb>
Cent that under Such pretences they Obtained from said Mr. Cussans who<lb></lb>
is<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50767_occ5">Gent</rs>
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. of very Considerable For time the above 3 Notes wch is all<lb></lb>
Dated 28th. March at Dift. period vat a Few days after they had got<lb></lb>
the said Notes they shut up their pretended Money Office &<del>hath kept</del>
<lb></lb>
Absconded therefrom with the said notes in their possession & wch Office<lb></lb>
hath been Shut up ever Since & upon full Inquiry into the Characters<lb></lb>
of the above sevl. psomd who call themselves proprietors of said Office<lb></lb>
they turn out to be a set of Notorious Swindlers Lord Offenders in this<lb></lb>
Kind of Business & as the Grand Jury hath found the Bill of Indictment<lb></lb>
please to move the Count for a Bench Warrt. agt. All the parties<lb></lb>
to Hold them to Bail & that such Bail May be Referred to the<del>Paper</del>
<lb></lb>
Sitting Majestrates at the Rotation Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50767_geo11">Litchfield Street</rs>
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& that<lb></lb>
they may give 48 Hours notice to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50767_n46-2">Saml. Leigh</rs>
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Sollr. for the<lb></lb>
prosecution at his Chambers No.9 <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50767_geo12">Inner Temple</rs>
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Lane in order that he<lb></lb>
May make the Necessary Enquiry into their Sufficiency.</p>
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