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<p n="1475"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1049">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1475-1">Henry Hervey Aston</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1475-2">Robert<lb></lb>
Chaplin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1475-3">William Craggs</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1475-4">William Smith</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1475-5">John Watts</rs>
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taken before me this 26th.. day<lb></lb>
of August 1782.</p>
<p n="1476">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1476-1">Henry Hersey</rs>
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Aston<lb></lb>
for himself says that a Person now Present who calls himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1476-2">Henry Lavell</rs>
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was his Servant and absconded on or about<lb></lb>
Friday sevenight last and stole a Gold Watch now produced<lb></lb>
this Informants Property, as well as a Gold Chain now produced<lb></lb>
And further says that two Orders for Payment of Money<lb></lb>
now produced were not drawn by this Informant nor by<lb></lb>
his Order or Authority, but are false forged and counterfeited.<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1476-3">Robert Chaplin</rs>
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says that he is a Porter at Mr.<lb></lb>
Brewers in the Piazza <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1050">Covent Garden</rs>
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That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1476-4">Henry<lb></lb>
Lavell</rs>
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lodged in his Master's house on Friday Night last and<lb></lb>
on Saturday morning he desired to have Ten Ink & Paper<lb></lb>
which this Informant carried to himthat said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1476-5">Henry Lavell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
shortly after rung the Bill and gave this Informant an<lb></lb>
Order for Payment of Money<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
now produced<lb></lb>
purporting to be the Order of H H Aston No.. 12 Lower Seymour Street Portman Square on Mrs.. Drummond<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1051">Charing Cross</rs>
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, for the Payment of Five Pounds five Shillings<lb></lb>
to the Bearer or Ordertelling this Informant at the same<lb></lb>
time that "he was to carry the said Order to Mr.. Drummonds<lb></lb>
and receive five Guineas" and added that "he this Informants<lb></lb>
must sign his Name on the Back of it"; but which was not<lb></lb>
required at the time of Payment. That he received the five<lb></lb>
Guineas and carried the same to the said Lavell. That</p>
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