Document 89, Draft Affidavit of R Heron, 4 April 1788, p 1
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| In Chancery Henry Errington Esqr Complainant | ||||
| agt | ||||
| Gawen Aynsley Esqr & Others Defendts | ||||
| Ralph Heron of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne | ||||
| one of the Attornies of his Majestys Court of Common Pleas and a | ||||
| Solicitor of this honourable Court maketh Oath and Saith that pursuant | ||||
| to Directions by him received from the said complainant he this Deponent | ||||
| attended at the General Quarter Sessions of the peace held in and for | ||||
| the County of Northumberland on Wednesday the Second Day of April | ||||
| instant and then and there informed the Justices of the peace assembled at | ||||
| the said Quarter Sessions that he this Deponent was desired by the said | ||||
| Complainant to appear for him and to request to be informed if the said | ||||
| Justices were disposed to receive any Proposals from the said Complainant | ||||
| towards an Accomodation as he the said Complainant had authorized this | ||||
| Deponent to make Proposals in Case they were disposed to accept of | ||||
| any, or expressed himself to that or the like Effect, to which this | ||||
| Deponent received for Answer from the said Justices that they did not | ||||
| think as Trustees for the publick they coud be justified in acceeding to | ||||
| any Proposals to be made on Behalf of the Complainant but that they | ||||
| wou’d be glad to accept of a Shilling or two pence if they cou’d be | ||||
| justified in so doing or to the like Effect. And this Deponent Saith | ||||
| that the Justices then present were the Defendant Gawen Aynsley, | ||||
| Thomas Fenwick Thomas Charles Bigge John Askew William Charlton | ||||
| William Orde Shafto Vaughan William Hargrave Esqrs and the Reverend | ||||
| George March Clerk | ||||
| Sworn at Newcastle upon Tyne the | ||||
| fourth Day of April 1788 Before me | ||||
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