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The Information of
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& Sedgwick of
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Oath before me one of His Majesty's
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Justices of the peace in and for the
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said County this fifteenth Day of
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April One Thousand seven hundred
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and eighty three;
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Who saith that he this Informant on Monday
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the third Day of March last enclosed in a Letter
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directed to Mr. George
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two Bank
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Notes of the Description and Value following, Vizt.,
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One No. 39 dated 19th Feby 1783 for Thirty Pounds
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payable to S Harling; and the other, No. B 50
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dated 28th. Jany. 1783 for Twenty Pounds payable
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to Messrs. Walpole & Co.That he This Informant
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sealed the said Letter and about the Hour of Seven
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o'Clock in the Evening of the said third Day of March
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put the same with the said Bark Notes therein
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enclosed into the
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London And this
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Informant further saith that he hath arefully looked
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at and examined the Bank Note now produced and
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appearing to be numbered No. B. 59 dated 28th. Jany
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1783 for Twenty Pounds Payable to Messrs. Walpole & Co.
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And this Informant doth verily believe that the same
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is one of the Bank Notes which this Informant so
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enclosed in the said Letter as aforesaid and that the Number
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thereof hath since that Time been altered And this Informant
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further saith he hath been informed and verily believes that
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never received the said Letter
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and Bank Notes or either of them.
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