of
L.100 each." Then they are shewn sixty-seven of the notes of L.1 each,
found in De Berenger's writing desk, and they say those are part of the
notes they paid to Fearn on the 24th of February.
Then Wood produces a box and two watches.
Bishop Bramley is called; he says, "I am a watchmaker and silversmith
living at Hull," (_the watches were shewn to him_); "I never sold this
watch or that, but I sold a watch to the gentleman who sits there for
L.30. 19_s._ 6_d._ on the 4th of March, and he paid me in L.1 bank
notes; I put my own initials upon them, I should know them again;"
[_Miller having produced some notes to the witness_], "all those seven
notes I received of the person I sold the watch to; I put my initials
and the date upon them; we took no other Bank of England notes on that
day; I received twenty in the forenoon, and the other eleven in the
afternoon; and I marked them, and paid them away the same afternoon."
Bilson and Northover are shewn the seven notes; they say those seven
notes were part of the two hundred notes we paid to Fearn, on the 24th
of February.
Lance says, "On the 26th of February, I gave Mr. Butt a check on
Prescott & Co. for L.98. 2_s._ 6_d._ that is the check."
Isherwood, a clerk to Prescott & Co. says, "I paid that check, I think
on the date of it, the 26th of February 1814," just before the time when
De Berenger went off, "in a L.50 bank note, No. 13,396, and a L.40 note,
No. 6,268." A L.40 note and a L.50 are shewn to him, to each of them he
says, "that is the note."
John Seeks is shewn a cancelled bank note of L.50; he says, "I gave
change for it, I cannot exactly recollect the day; here are some letters
on the back that I know it by; I gave change for it to Mr. De Berenger's
servant, Smith."
Now there we stopped last night, upon that note, because it could not be
proved that Smith, De Berenger's servant, paid it for his master; this
morning it is proved by Smith, that he did pay that L.50 bank note to
Seeks, by desire of Mr. De Berenger, therefore that L.50 is fixed upon
him as drawn from the same source, namely, the bank note which had come
from Mr. Butt.
A memorandum in Mr. De Berenger's book, written in pencil, was referred
to by the counsel, "W.S. L.50." Mr. Lavie says, "I never saw any writing
in pencil of Mr. De Berenger's, but I believe this to be his writing, it
is exactly the same sort of character as the other."
Benjamin Bray is called, he says, "I live at
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