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<p n="569"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo201">Middlesex</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo202">Westminster</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit</note>
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<p n="570">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n570-1">John Pownall</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45021_occ79">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n570-2">George Wheatley</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n570-3">William Heald</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before the two of his<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45021_occ80">Justices of the peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the said County City and<lb></lb>
Liberty</p>
<p n="571">Who being severally upon Oath say and First<lb></lb>
this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n571-1">George Wheatley</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
Saith that he is one of the Clerks at <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n571-2">Robert</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n571-3">Henry Drummond</rs>
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and Company Bankers<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45021_geo203">Charing Cross</rs>
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that on Thursday afternoon<lb></lb>
the Eighth of this Instant September a person now<lb></lb>
present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n571-4">William Lewis</rs>
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<lb></lb>
brought a Draft<del>datd Septemr. 8 1770.</del>
in the<lb></lb>
following Words</p>
<p n="572">Messrs. Drummond</p>
<p n="573">Pay the Bearer the sum of Fifteen<lb></lb>
pounds and place it to the account of</p>
<p n="574">I Pownall</p>
<p n="575">Septr. 8th. 1774</p>
<p n="576">and presented the same to this Informant<lb></lb>
for Payment. upon which this Informant desired<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n576-1">William Lewis</rs>
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to write his name<lb></lb>
upon the back of it which he did by the name<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45021_n576-2">Thos. Smith</rs>
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now Indorsed thereon<lb></lb>
this Informant then paid him the said<lb></lb>
Fifteen pounds in one Bank note for that sum<lb></lb>
that the next Morning upon Examining the<lb></lb>
Several Drafts of the proceding Day some<lb></lb>
Suspicion Arose that the aforesaid Draft was<lb></lb>
not of the hand Writing of Mr Pownal upon<lb></lb>
which a Clerk was sent with the said Draft<lb></lb>
to Mr Pownall who brought back for Answer<lb></lb>
that it was not of his hand Writing</p>
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