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<p n="1405"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-1">John Clack</rs>
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on the Bock of it said" it was as good a Bill as any<lb></lb>
in England". That this Informant told said Clack that he had not<lb></lb>
Money to change said Bill, but which said Bill of Exchange this<lb></lb>
Informant kept and Lett him a Phaeton, a Pair of Horses and a<lb></lb>
Saddle horse the next Day to go to Barnett, and which he returned<lb></lb>
with at night. That the next day (being Monday) this Informant<lb></lb>
sent the said Bill of Exchange to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1006">Victualling Office</rs>
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by a Friend<lb></lb>
to enquire whether said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-2">Thomas Lorkin</rs>
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belonged there, who returned<lb></lb>
and told this Informant that one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-3">Thomas Lorkin</rs>
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had been<lb></lb>
employed there but that he had been dismissed from thence<lb></lb>
about three years before on account of Bills and Notes. That<lb></lb>
said Clack on the Tuesday following sent for the Phaeton and Horses again,<lb></lb>
but this Informant refused to let him have them. That this<lb></lb>
Informant hath made strict enquiry after <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-4">Thomas Smith</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
Drawer of said Bill in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1007">George Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1008">Spittlefields</rs>
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, but could find<lb></lb>
no such Person That on Friday last this Informant out went to<lb></lb>
the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-5">Thomas Lorkin</rs>
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now present in Castle Sheet <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1009">Leicester<lb></lb>
Fields</rs>
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, where he saw said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-6">Thomas Lorkin</rs>
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and Shewed him the said<lb></lb>
Bill of Exchange who took a Copy of it. That said Lorkin told<lb></lb>
this Informant that the Body of the Bill, was his Hand-writing and<lb></lb>
that he drew the Bill to accomodate Mrs. Middleton and to Keep<lb></lb>
up his Credit, and that the Indorsement<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
''<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-7">Thomas Lorkin</rs>
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'' was<lb></lb>
his Hand-writing. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-8">John Partridge</rs>
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says that he was<lb></lb>
present with said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-9">Francis Calvert</rs>
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at said Lorkins's house, and<lb></lb>
heard him say what is before adduced by said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-10">Francis Calvert</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-11">Elizabeth Whitmore</rs>
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says that she is well<lb></lb>
acquainted with the Hand-writing of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-12">Richard Middleton</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
that she has carefully examined the Bills of Exchange now produced<lb></lb>
and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
is very sure that the name "Richd. Middleton" (as Drawer<lb></lb>
of said Bill)<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
or any other Part of it, is not the Hand-writing<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-13">Richard Middleton</rs>
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now present And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1405-14">Richard Middleton</rs>
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