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We {?hardly readable} do hereby {hardly readable} we very well know the within named Wm. Somerbell and beleive him to be a very honest In- dustrious man and that we were Eye Witnesses to the damage done here by the late great flood in the river South Tyne and that we have also Examined the account and Estimate within written and beleive the same to be a true and moderate account and Estimate of the damage the said Wm. Somerbell sustained by the same and we have reason to beleive that the said Wm. Somerbell is not very well able to bear such loss and that it would be a real Charity done to give him releif on account thereof As Witness our Hands this 31th day of December 1771 Alexander Dobinson John Pattison I The Revd. John Farrow Curate of the Parish of Haltwhistle within mentioned do hereby Certify that I very well know the within named Wm. Somerbell and also the several Persons whose names are Subscribed to the above Written Certificate and beleive him and them to be very Honest men, that I had not an opportunity of seeing the damage done to him by the said flood but beleive that he suffered the above mentioned loss by the said flood and that the within written account and Estimate is a true and moderate one As Witness my Hand this 31th day of December 1771 John Farrer
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