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<p n="11"> <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n11-1">Matthew James</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n11-2">Edward Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n11-3">John Rouson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n11-4">John Robinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n11-5">John Ward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n11-6">Richard Deale</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n11-7">John Sullivan</rs>
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<p n="12">On <rs type="date" id="OA17650213_date7">Wednesday the 6th of February, 1765</rs>
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, the report of the said malefactors was made to his majesty by Mr. Recorder. Four of them were ordered for execution on <rs type="date" id="OA17650213_date8">Wednesday, February the 13th</rs>
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, viz.</p>
<p n="13"> <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n13-1">Matthew James</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n13-2">Edward Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n13-3">John Rouson</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n13-4">John Ward</rs>
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. - <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n13-5">John Robinson</rs>
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for house-breaking, <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n13-6">John Sullivan</rs>
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for stealing two guineas, the property of <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n13-8">John-Charles Teircher</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n13-7">Richard Deale</rs>
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for stealing a black gelding, were respited.</p>
<p n="14">1. <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n14-1">Matthew James</rs>
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was indicted for feloniously forging a bill of exchange, purporting to bear date at <rs type="date" id="OA17650213_date9">Hull, September the 15th, 1764</rs>
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, and to have been drawn by <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n14-2">Robert Thorley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n14-3">Christopher Thorley</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n14-6">William King</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="OA17650213_occ7">merchants and partners</rs>
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, directed to Mess. Rumbolt and Walker, merchants, in <rs type="placeName" id="OA17650213_geo4">Liverpool</rs>
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, for the payment of 40l. 12s. to the order of <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n14-4">James Holmes</rs>
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; and for publishing the same, knowing it to have been forged and counterfeited, with intent to defraud <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n14-5">William Taylor</rs>
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, and also to defraud Mess. Thorleys and King, <rs type="date" id="OA17650213_date10">October 17</rs>
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<p n="15">He was indicted at the sessions in December last, for forging a counterfeit bill of exchange for the Payment of 30l. in words and figures following:</p>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17650213_date11">August 16, 1764.</rs>
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<p n="17">"At one month pay this first bill of exchange, to the order of "<rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n17-1">John Hall</rs>
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, the sum of 30l. value received in cash, which place "to account, as per advice,</p>
<p n="18">"<rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n18-1">Richard Scott</rs>
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<p n="19">"To mess. Thomas and <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n19-1">William Croft</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="OA17650213_geo6">London</rs>
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<p n="20">"Accepted <rs type="date" id="OA17650213_date12">Sept. 3</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n20-1">William Croft</rs>
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<p n="21">On the back "<rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n21-1">John Hall</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="OA17650213_n21-2">Robert Sconswer</rs>
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."</p>
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