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the Proprictors of the Morning Post
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taken before me this
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17th. day of
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November 1787
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Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said
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has been Porter
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to this Informant about three Months That one part of his
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Employment is to carry advertisements to the Newspapers and
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paying for their insertion that for such purposes he
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occationally entrusts him with such Swans of Money as shall
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by necessary for so doing And that in return he has been
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accustorned to deliver to him such Recipts as from his Report
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he received at the different printing Offices that the Receipt
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now produced dated 3d. November 1787 for 12s.6d. for an
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Advertisement inserted in the Morning Post he received from
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the said Bennett And that he verily believes the said Receipt
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to be Forged and counterfeited And the said
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George Wiseman
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for himself says that he perfectly recollects the Prisoner
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ande like wise his Signing the
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Said Receipt of 3d. November now produced and now Mark'd
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12s:6d.And that he is perfectly assured at the time he
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Signed it he had received only ten Shillings and Six
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pence and signed if for no more than ten Shillings and
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Six pence and that the Figures as they now Stand is
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a Forgery
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Sworn before me the
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day and Year aforesaid}
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Addington
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