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<p n="2981"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2858">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2981-1">William<lb></lb>
Weller</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2859">Oxford Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ1032">Gentleman</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2981-2">George Wiseman</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ1033">Clerk</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
the Proprictors of the Morning Post<lb></lb>
taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date503">17th. day of<lb></lb>
November 1787</rs>
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<p n="2982">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2982-1">William Weller</rs>
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for himself says that the Persons now<lb></lb>
Present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2982-2">Robert Bennett</rs>
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has been Porter<lb></lb>
to this Informant about three Months That one part of his<lb></lb>
Employment is to carry advertisements to the Newspapers and<lb></lb>
paying for their insertion that for such purposes he<lb></lb>
occationally entrusts him with such Swans of Money as shall<lb></lb>
by necessary for so doing And that in return he has been<lb></lb>
accustorned to deliver to him such Recipts as from his Report<lb></lb>
he received at the different printing Offices that the Receipt<lb></lb>
now produced dated 3d. November 1787 for 12s.6d. for an<lb></lb>
Advertisement inserted in the Morning Post he received from<lb></lb>
the said Bennett And that he verily believes the said Receipt<lb></lb>
to be Forged and counterfeited And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2982-3">George Wiseman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself says that he perfectly recollects the Prisoner<lb></lb>
Bennett coming to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2860">Morning Post Office</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2861">Black<lb></lb>
Court</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2862">Catharine Street</rs>
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ande like wise his Signing the<lb></lb>
Said Receipt of 3d. November now produced and now Mark'd<lb></lb>
12s:6d.And that he is perfectly assured at the time he<lb></lb>
Signed it he had received only ten Shillings and Six<lb></lb>
pence and signed if for no more than ten Shillings and<lb></lb>
Six pence and that the Figures as they now Stand is<lb></lb>
a Forgery</p>
<p n="2983">Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
day and Year aforesaid}<lb></lb>
Weller<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2983-45">Geo. Wiseman</rs>
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Addington</p>
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