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The Information of Mr.
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John Corbould
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taken before me this
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29th. March 1758
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Who being on Oath says that he is by Trade an
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Engraver
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; that about
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the beginning of this Instant March a Person now present who calls
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Richard William Vaughan
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applied to this Informant; that the
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then said that his Name was
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; that he desired this Informant
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to engrave him a promisary Note for value received, a Copy of which
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he gave him, which he accordingly executed; but says that the said
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Vaughan otherwise Sneyd did not approve of it, and that the following
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was one of his Objections Vizt. that the Word on in the second Line in
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a Copy of an engraved Note now produced should have been at the end
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of the first Line; that on his requiring several other alterations to be made
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this Informant advised him to have a fresh plate
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engraved; that
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the said Vaughan, alias Sneyd, conserted to it, and gave this Informant
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Instructions accordingly. And says that he
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caused the said Plate to
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be engraved; and that the Proof now produced was printed from the said
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Plate. Says that the said Plate was deliverd to the said Vaughan alias
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Sneyd, And this Informant farther says that some Days after the said
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Plate was deliver'd the said Vaughan, alias sneyd, come to this Informant
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last mentioned Plate wou'd not do and
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that it was given away, and that he must have another done, says that
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he call'd the next Day on this Informant and brought the Copy of a Note
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which he desired to be engraved. And says that he this Informant look
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off an Impression of the said Copy on a wep'd Plate now produced,
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and says that he then told the said Vaughan, alias sneyd, that the Copy
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then produced had the Resemblance of a Bank Note and that he did not
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cheese to engrave it. Says that the said Vaughan alias Sneyd then
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told him that he was a Man of Character, that there was no harm
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in it, that he had asked the Advice of a Council
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