Document 66, Mr Smeaton's Replies to Interrogatories, p 1
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| Answers of John Smeaton to | ||||
| Interrogatories for the Examination of Witnesses | ||||
| to be produced sworn and examined in a certain Cause | ||||
| now depending and at Issue in the High Court of Chancery | ||||
| wherein Henry Errington Esqr is Complainant; and | ||||
| Gawen Ainsley, John Tweddell and Bacon William | ||||
| Wastell Esqr. are Defendants on the part of the said | ||||
| Complainant | ||||
| 1st Interrogatory. To this Interrogatory this Witness answers | ||||
| that he knows all the Parties, Complainant and Defendants, Gawen Ainsley | ||||
| Esqr excepted. That he has known the Defendants Bacon Wastell and John | ||||
| Tweddell Esqrs above the Space of 20 Years and the Complainant Henry | ||||
| Errington Esqr not so long; but yet above 10 Years according to this | ||||
| Deponent's best Remembrance and Belief. | ||||
| 2nd Interrogatory. To this Interrogatory this Deponent answering | ||||
| says that some time in or about the latter part of the year 1776: This | ||||
| Deponent being then at Hexham upon the Receipt of the Derwentwater | ||||
| Rents for Greenwich Hospital (for which he was at that time one | ||||
| of the Agents or Receivers) he was applied to by Mr John Donkin then | ||||
| Steward or Agent to the said Complainant to know if he the said | ||||
| Deponent would undertake the direction of the building of a Bridge | ||||
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