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Document 75, Draft of Ralph Heron's deposition, p 1

Ralph Heron of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne
Gentleman aged 49 years and upwards a Witness produced sworn and 174
examined on the part of the Complainant deposeth as follows
1st & last to the first and last Interries this Deponent saith that he knows the Parties Complainant
and Defendants in the Title of the Interries named and hath known them respectively for
20 years and upwards-Saith that on the 27th Day of December 1783 he this Deponent for
and on the Behalf of the Complainant delivered to John Davidson Esqr Clerk of the peace for
the County of Northumberland an Estimate dated Sandhoe 10 Decr 1783 signed J Smeaton
of which the Paper now produced by this Deponent at the time of his Examination marked
on the Back thereof with the Letter ( ) is a Copy, and at the same time he, this Deponent
for and on the Behalf of the Complainant delivered to the said John Davidson a Paper dated
Red Rice Decbr 18 1783 signed Heny Errington of which the Paper now produced by this
Deponent at the time of his Examination marked on the Back thereof with the Letter ( ) is a
Copy which last mentioned Paper purports to be an Offer made by the said Complainant to pay the
Sum of 2925£ 17s. 5d in the said Estimate mentioned and at the same time this Deponent for and
on Behalf of the Complainant delivered to the said John Davidson a Letter from John
Smeaton Esqr to the said Complainant dated Sandhoe 10 Decr 1783 of which the paper now
produced by this Deponent at the time of his Examination marked on the Back thereof with the
Letter ( ) is a Copy, and which several Copies have been made in this Deponents possession
[?] delivered the Originals to the said John Davidson, And this Deponent saith that
+5 on [the?] Eleventh Day of December January 1784 he received from the sd John Davidson the paper Writing now produced and shewn to
this Deponent at the time of his Examination marked on the Back thereof with the Letter ( )
in Consequence of which last mentioned Paper this Deponent for and on the Behalf of the Complainant
attended at the General Quarter Sessions of the peace held for the County of Northumberland at
Morpeth on the 14th Day of January 1784 and was ordered by the Justices of the peace to [?]
present at the said Sessions to wait upon them in a Room in which they were assembled, which
this Deponent accordingly did, and waited there until he was ordered to withdraw, and afterwards
on the same Day the said John Davidson informed this Deponent that he the said John
Davidson woud the next Day give this Deponent the final Resolution of the Justices in Writing
and Saith that on the 15th Day of Janry 1784 [?] in the Evening this Deponent received
a Letter from the said John Davidson which Letter this Deponent now produces at this
the time of his Examination and which is marked on the Back thereof with the Letter ( )
And Saith that the sd he this deponent is well acquainted with the Character and Hand
writing of the said John Davidson having frequently seen him write and that the whole of
the said paper writing marked on the Back thereof with the Letter ( ) and the whole of
the said last mentioned Letter marked are respectively the proper Hand writing of the said John Davidson

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