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To Mr
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of ye. pepper Cellar under ye Rayal Exchange
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Sr. Mr.
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at present a prisoner in Newgte for a debt of £23.5s.2d.
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Not due these Several months, to ye plantiff
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Thos. Yallowly
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of Finsbury
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Sadler, who together with his wife
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Mary Chevalier
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have Conbind to Ruin my sd. Client
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and Detain between them upwards of £403.. In Ready money, said yallowly &
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Morgage upwards of £160 on a Messuage known by ye. name of ye .Red lyon
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in Mare Street Hackney, beside three Trunks full of Considerable goods also
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Boxes the one Markd. Pc. N. 3.. Containing one sadle, part of ye. Goods of Debt
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above mentiond. and £7..0..0.. & upward of my said Chints goods
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said
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yallowlys. sadle and packed up by sd. yallowlys. own hands & offerd
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the same in part of what my sd. Client is now under arr
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yallowly the maker thereof, for Reasons that will appear in a
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Lastly all my said Clients Plate Jewells Etc and beside all that above recited
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a note of yours Mr.
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John Purdy
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originally Drawn by Tony Med hurst of
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Norwich Weaver accepted and paid by my said Client
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Peter Chevalier
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& for
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have Lately arrested been Tess: Wm. Tims Genl: in
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and as a
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Informd. make your beast to wrong my said Client by ye. act Expected for the
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Relief of Insolvents, To this Mr. Purdy John you have added & assosiat
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your whole familly, some Excepted, in Order to perpetrate your hell
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(Viz) you have had ye. assurance to frequent his house in
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And
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There out, trust his Servant
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Henry Bradshaw
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, and in his presence
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Perused what papers of his you Could Come at, and said Servt. being their
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Servt from my sd. Client for necessaries of Life, you sold and Ordered my
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said Clients wife your Daughter to send nothing, that you with Insuportable
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Impudence Contradicted my sd. Clients Orders given to his Badesmen
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Particularly at a
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near
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Etc. Telling them
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my sd. Client Chevalier was determined to Cheat all he Could & then Run away
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and that for Certain my said Client was Raving mad, And to Compleat the
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Measure of your Malice did acqt. Mr. Mackrel Clark to a Genl: in
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Alderman
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, that my said Client kept 30 men in Livery & Coach and Six Etc.
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and To Confirm sd. falshood added yt. my said Client treated his sd. 30 Servt.
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in an Expensive manner at ye. Bufflirs head Tavern Treadnealdle Street
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besides several articles needless to mention of wch. my client has Credi
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Persons to prove
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That these false & Groundless Reports have been
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Spread by your Industrious malice I Leave my Client
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Chevalier to Justifye
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Yours T. Teltrath
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In Law I request that hense forth you do not presumes
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To Enter my house In
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or any other I have any part
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shall answer ye. Contrary at your peril for I Design to prosecute you
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But being willing To Lenity, before Extremity, I therefore des
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that as you shall know. ye Orriginall of the Unhappy Difference subsi
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Between us your Children and Inflamd. & Increased to ye. height ha
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Brought it To, For your own sake Reflect on ye. Consequence that
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must attend, if not Timely presented
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