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_A._ We took no other Bank of England notes on that day.
_Q._ You marked them at the time you received them?
_A._ Yes, I received twenty in the forenoon, and the other eleven in the afternoon, and I marked them and paid them away the same afternoon.
_Cross-examined by Mr. Park._
_Q._ I understand you to say neither of those watches found in the possession of Mr. De Berenger is the watch you sold?
_A._ Neither of them.
_Q._ You wrote upon all the notes?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Those are the only seven you have seen since?
_A._ Yes.
_Mr. Gurney._ You paid them all away?
_A._ We did.
_John Bilson and Thomas Northover called again._
_Mr. Gurney._ Have the goodness to look over your book, and see whether those seven were part of the two hundred that were paid to Fearn?
[_The Witnesses examined them._]
_Mr. Bilson._ Those seven notes were part of the property paid to Fearn on the 24th of February.
_Benjamin Lance called again;_
_Examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ On the 25th of February, did you give Mr. b.u.t.t a check on Prescott & Company, for .98. 2_s._ 6_d._?
_A._ On the 26th of February I did.
_Q._ Is that the check? [_shewing it to the witness._]
_A._ That is the check.
_John Isherwood sworn;_
_Examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ Are you clerk to Prescott & Company?
_A._ I am.
_Q._ Look at that check, did you pay that?
_A._ I did.
_Q._ On what day?
_A._ The date of it the 26th of February, I think.
_Mr. Park._ That is an entry in your own hand-writing.
_A._ It is.
_Mr. Gurney._ Did you pay a 50_l._ note?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ What number?
_A._ No. 13,396.
_Q._ Did you pay also a forty pound note?
_A._ Yes, No. 6,268.
_Q._ Look at that, is that the .40. note?
_A._ Yes, that is the note.
_Mr. Gurney._ Mr. Miller, will you produce the .50. note? [_Mr. Miller produced it, and it was shewn to the Witness._]
_A._ This is the note.
_Mr. John Seeks sworn;_
_Examined by Mr. Gurney._
_Q._ Look at that cancelled bank note for .50. did you receive that bank note in payment from any person?
_A._ I gave change for it.
_Q._ On what day?
