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The Information of
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taken before me this
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Seventh Day of December 1768
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Who being upon his Oath Saith that a Person now Present
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whose Name is
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Came yesterday to this Informant and
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Asked him if he had given a Promisery Note Value £50 to one
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Isaac
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Levy
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, to which this Informant Answered he had, and told him at the
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same time he was busey and that he would meet him Next Day
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at the Valiant Trooper in
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Oxford Street
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; Accordingly this Informant
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and a Person whose Name is
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and is here present,
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went to the Valiant Trooper as Aforesaid at the time Appointed
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When they came there, they found the said Allen, who told this
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Informant that he had taken a Promisery Note of his; Value £50
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for Goods on One
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Isaac Levy
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, this Informant then told him, that
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was in the Kings Bench Prison; On which he the said
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Allen said, to look back to Levy he should get Nothing, and told
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this Informant that he Considered he had a Large familly and would
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Compremise the Affair with him, for he Could better afford to loose
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then him; and purposed to take five Guineas for the Above
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Promisery Note; which said Note he then produced to
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as
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Aforesaid, And this Informant at the same time produced five Guineas
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the said Hall desired this Informant to look at the Note to see if it
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was his writing; Accordingly this Informant did; and said it was
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not his writing and that it was a forged NoteWhere upon this
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Informant took up the five Guineas again And the Said Hall
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Put the Note into his Pockett BookOn which he made a pretence
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to go out as if to make watter and when he got to the Door he immediately
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run of and Said Hall prooved him and brought him back to the
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Valiant Trooper And Asked him his reason for running away
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The Answered, that the Name of forgery Struck him, on which
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Hall told him he looked upon him to be a bad Man and desired
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this Informant would take him before a Magistrate which they
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Accordingly Died.
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Sworn before me the Day
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and year Above written}
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Jno Spinnage
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Thos Little
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