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Informant would receive it for him he Should be much obligid
to him to which this Deponent answered he would receive it to
oblige the said Powell and the said Powell then appointed to
meet him on the Friday following at 11 o Clock at the three
Tunns in Upper Thames Street near London. Bridgethat they
then partedthat on the Friday following this Informant met
at the time and place appointed and waited three Quarters of an
hour that the said Powell did not come in that time that
this Informant left Word with the Landlord that he would come
again in three Quarters of an Hourthat about two o Clock on
the same day he went to the said three Tunns and there found
Powell in the Tap Room in company with another person who
then lived as Porter to the said Messrs: Hardcastle and Field
and after [..] drinking together said Powell and this Informant
went out together to Lombard Street near Gracechurch Street when
said Powell said he did not know which was the House but
would enquire and accordingly went into a Bankers Shop the
corner of George Yard and on coming out informed this Informant
that the House was a little lower down in the said Street
and he said Powell went to the Door of the House of the said Messrs: Blands
and Co when he pulled out a pocket Book out of his Pocket
and took thereout the Draft now produced and delivered it to
himthatand said it was for Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds
Fourteen Shillings and this Informant was to have it half
in Bank Notes and half in Cash and that if this Informant was
asked who he brought said Draft from, the said Powellmentioned
desired him to say he brought it from a person whose Name was
mentioned by Powell but which Name this Informant doth not




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