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<p n="1"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45014_geo1">Westminster</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1-1">Thomas Little</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45014_geo2">Oxford Chapple Court</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45014_geo3"> Saint Mary Le bon</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45014_geo4">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45014_occ1">Carpenter</rs>
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taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45014_date3">Seventh Day of December 1768</rs>
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<p n="2">Who being upon his Oath Saith that a Person now Present<lb></lb>
whose Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n2-1">John Allen</rs>
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Came yesterday to this Informant and<lb></lb>
Asked him if he had given a Promisery Note Value £50 to one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n2-2">Isaac<lb></lb>
Levy</rs>
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, to which this Informant Answered he had, and told him at the<lb></lb>
same time he was busey and that he would meet him Next Day<lb></lb>
at the Valiant Trooper in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45014_geo5">Oxford Street</rs>
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; Accordingly this Informant<lb></lb>
and a Person whose Name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n2-3">John Hall</rs>
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and is here present,<lb></lb>
went to the Valiant Trooper as Aforesaid at the time Appointed<lb></lb>
When they came there, they found the said Allen, who told this<lb></lb>
Informant that he had taken a Promisery Note of his; Value £50<lb></lb>
for Goods on One <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n2-4">Isaac Levy</rs>
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, this Informant then told him, that<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n2-5">Isaac Levy</rs>
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was in the Kings Bench Prison; On which he the said<lb></lb>
Allen said, to look back to Levy he should get Nothing, and told<lb></lb>
this Informant that he Considered he had a Large familly and would<lb></lb>
Compremise the Affair with him, for he Could better afford to loose<lb></lb>
then him; and purposed to take five Guineas for the Above<lb></lb>
Promisery Note; which said Note he then produced to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n2-6">John Hall</rs>
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as<lb></lb>
Aforesaid, And this Informant at the same time produced five Guineas<lb></lb>
the said Hall desired this Informant to look at the Note to see if it<lb></lb>
was his writing; Accordingly this Informant did; and said it was <lb></lb>
not his writing and that it was a forged NoteWhere upon this<lb></lb>
Informant took up the five Guineas again And the Said Hall<lb></lb>
Put the Note into his Pockett BookOn which he made a pretence<lb></lb>
to go out as if to make watter and when he got to the Door he immediately<lb></lb>
run of and Said Hall prooved him and brought him back to the<lb></lb>
Valiant Trooper And Asked him his reason for running away<lb></lb>
The Answered, that the Name of forgery Struck him, on which<lb></lb>
Hall told him he looked upon him to be a bad Man and desired<lb></lb>
this Informant would take him before a Magistrate which they<lb></lb>
Accordingly Died.</p>
<p n="3">Sworn before me the Day<lb></lb>
and year Above written}</p>
<p n="4"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n4-1">Jno Spinnage</rs>
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<p n="5"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n5-1">Thos Little</rs>
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