Richard Pedder: The Information of Richard Pedder 25 September 1699

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The Information of Richard Pedder Callendar next door to the Swan with 2 Necks in Ladd Lane in the parish of S^t Lawrence London 25 September 1699

He saith that about 3 weekes ago one John Blake of the parish of Pinnar in the County of Middlesex Carpenter did buy of him the said Richard Peddar a Fustian Frock in Golden Lane in the parish of S^t Gyles without Criplegate in the said County of Middlesex at a Meal Shop he the said John Blake lodging there at that time and the said John Blake in paying him this Informant for the said Frock gave him a Counterfeit French Pistoll out of which this Informant gave to the said John Blake 8^s + 8^d back it being the overplus of what the Frock came to and that the said John Blake refused to change the said Pistoll and affirmed that if it was his he received it of his Master Thomas Pond Carpenter of the said parish of Pinnar who paid him two French pistolls and that the said Pond acknowledged that he had paid two French pistoles to the said John Blacke

Rich Peddar

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