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taken up, iiix. May 4, 1730, on J——s for 500).
May 9, on IV s for 1020 /. Augufl 13, on W s
for 100 /. ditto, on W n for zo/. Sept. 5. on Mr.
W 7- r for 200 /. Ditto die on W « for
20 /. Dec. 9, on W m T r for 400 /. on him.
Ditto die for 120 /. Sum of all this is, 2380 /. Thefe
Frauds he carried on againft the Bank fince the 4th of
May laft ; all the Money he cheated the Bank of fince
the Year 1724, he often told me amounted to 4420/.
Sterling. You will find fubjoin'd to this a Letter di-
rciSed to me, written and fign'd by himfelf, giving a
particular Account of the manner of his Apprehen-
fion and Confeffion, before the Deputy Governor of
the Bank, which is as follows.
To the Revd. Mr. JAMES GUTHRIE, Ordinary of
Newgate.
Reverend SIR,
Newgate, March 6, 1731.
I Thought it would be expedted I fliould give fome
Account of myfelf, and the Crime for which I
fuffer, and I am willing fo to do. I am defcended
from a good Family, and was well educated, am
about forty-eight Years of Age, and have for up-
wards of eight Years pafl been a Servant at the
Bank, but being greatly in Debt when I came into
that Service, and not having the due Regard I ought
to have had to God's Holy Commandments, and be-
ing prefled by my Creditors, I contrived Ways to de-
fraud the Bank, and thereby procured Money to my
Creditors, and on Saturday the 2d of January I was
fufpefted and flopt at the Bank, and by the Deputy-
Governor fent tliat Night on Sufpicion to the Comp-
ter, and on Monday hearing that feveral of my
Friends were taken up upon Sufpicion, who were in-
nocept Perfons, and I being defirous to clear them,
" did