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<p n="1"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London: ss.</note>
The Voluntary Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n1-1">Timothy Murphy</rs>
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late of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ1">Royall<lb></lb>
Family Privateers</rs>
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but now a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ2">Prisoner</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15064_geo1">the Poultry Compter</rs>
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taken upon Oath this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15064_date3">nineteenth Day of September 1752</rs>
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. Before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n1-2">Thomas Chitty</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ3">Esqr</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ4">Aldeman</rs>
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&<lb></lb>
one of his Majesties Justices of the peace for the said City, Saith</p>
<p n="2"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">G</note>
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That on or about the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Month<del>Day</del>
of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
February 1750 be this Informant was<lb></lb>
applied to by one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-1">Thomas Noad</rs>
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, who acted as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ5">Clerk</rs>
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to the Managers of the Said<lb></lb>
Privateers, to forge or cause to be forged the Will of one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-2">John Wilkinson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who was a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ6">Sailor</rs>
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belonging to one of the Said Privateers and one of the parties<lb></lb>
mentioned as Plaintiff along with Capt. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-3">Robert Sinclair</rs>
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in a Bill filed in the<lb></lb>
high Court of Chansery against the Mangers of the Said Privateers, Which<lb></lb>
Forgery was in order (as he the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-4">Thomas Noads</rs>
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Said) to over sett the<lb></lb>
Said Cause For that None (meaning the Sailors and others that belonged to the<lb></lb>
Said Privateers) stood true to Goddard (meaning Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-5">James Goddard</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ7">Agent</rs>
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to the Said Ship's Company) but Wilkinson and Sinclair (meaning the<lb></lb>
Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-6">John Wilkinson</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-7">Robert Sinclair</rs>
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), And accordingly the Said Thomas<lb></lb>
Noads bought a printed from of a Sailor's Will, filled up the Blanks with<lb></lb>
his own hand and gave the Same to this Informant as a Guide for him<lb></lb>
to transcribe the Same by and forge the Will of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-8">John Wilkinson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in order lorde fraud him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-9">John Wilkinson</rs>
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of the money due to him<lb></lb>
from the Said Managers And that this Informant did accordingly write<lb></lb>
over a Will as and for the Will of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-10">John Wilkinson</rs>
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, and did with<lb></lb>
his this Informant's own hand by the direction of the Said Thomas<lb></lb>
Noads, Subscribe thereto the Name of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-11">John Wilkinson</rs>
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And the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-12">Thomas Noads</rs>
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did afterwards put a Seal thereto, Which<lb></lb>
Will when delivered to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-13">Thomas Noads</rs>
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had only the name of<lb></lb>
one Subscribing witness thereto, Which the Said Thomas Noads<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
objecting<lb></lb>
to, Saying there must be two Witnesses, did thereupon with his the<lb></lb>
Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-14">Thomas Noads</rs>
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's own hand write the name of<lb></lb>
as another Witness to the said forged Will, And afterwards the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-15">Thomas Noads</rs>
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indorc'd upon the back of the Said forged will the<lb></lb>
name of Crespigny, and directed him this Informant to go with one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-16">Thomas Williams</rs>
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and carry the Same to Mr. Crespigny a Proctor in<lb></lb>
Doctor's Commons in order to obtain a Probate of the Said Will And<lb></lb>
upon this Informant's coming to Mr. Crespigny's Office in Company<lb></lb>
with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-17">Thomas Williams</rs>
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, the Said Mr Crespigny Sent his Clerk<lb></lb>
with the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-18">Thomas Williams</rs>
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in order to do the needfull to obtain<lb></lb>
the Probate of the Said Will, When the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n2-19">Thomas Williams</rs>
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took</p>
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