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one of two hundred pounds, No. 634. _Q._ What other notes? _A._ Two, of one hundred pounds each. _Q._ What are the numbers? _A._ 18,468 is one of them, and the other 16,601. _Q._ Was there a L.50.? _A._ Yes, No. 7,375. _Mr. Gurney._ It is not necessary to mention the other, because I do not trace it. _Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Best._ _Q._ You do not know to whom you paid that? _A._ No, I do not. _Lord Ellenborough._ You paid it to the bearer of that check for L.470, in discharge of that check? _A._ Yes, I did. _Mr. Thomas Parker sworn;_ _Examined by Mr. Gurney._ _Q._ You are a coal-merchant? _A._ Yes. _Q._ Does Lord Cochrane deal with you? _A._ He did. _Q._ Did you receive from him in payment a bank note of fifty pounds. _A._ To the best of my recollection I did. _Q._ On what day? _A._ I do not exactly know the day; but some time in the beginning of March I think, or probably in the end of February. _A Bank Clerk produced the L.50. note No. 7,375._ _Q._ Did Lord Cochrane make that payment to you in that bank note? _A._ Yes, I believe he did. _Mr. Serjeant Best._ Is that your own memorandum? _A._ Yes; I write on the back of the notes, and that is my hand-writing. _Benjamin Lance called again;_ _Examined by Mr. Gurney._ _Q._ On the 24th of February, did you go to the Bank to exchange any bank notes for smaller notes? _A._ I did. _Q._ By whose desire did you go? _A._ Mr. Butt's. _Q._ Are those the two notes you received from him to exchange? [_shewing the witness the two notes for L.100. each, produced by the bank clerk._] _A._ They are. _Lord Ellenborough._ Have you seen those L.100. notes, which you carried to the Bank to exchange for smaller notes? _A._ I have this moment. _Mr. Gurney._ What did you receive in exchange for them? _A._ I received two hundred notes for one pound each. _Q._ What did you do with those notes? _A._ I gave them to Mr. Butt. _Cross-examined by Mr. Scarlett._ _Q._ Have you any connexion with Mr. Smallbone. _A._ Yes, I am with Mr. Smallbone. _Q._ Do you remember at any time, on the 15th of February, Mr. Butt lending Lord Cochrane two hundred pounds, in order to make up a sum that he had to pay? _A._ Yes. _Q._ On the 15th of February? _A._ Yes, it might be on the 15th of February. _Q._ Do you remember going with that check [_shewin
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