e given to Mr. Butt?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ And you say Mr. Butt afterwards gave them to Mr. Cochrane
Johnstone?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did you see him give them?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did you see Mr. Butt give him the other two hundred one pound notes
he got from Lance?
_A._ No.
_Q._ You were not present then?
_A._ No, I was not.
_Mr. Adolphus._ We wish Mr. Wood now to produce out of the desk a watch,
which he found in the possession of Mr. De Berenger.
[_The Witness produced two watches._]
_Q._ Were they both in the box when you found it?
_A._ They were.
_Mr. Bishop Bramley sworn;_
_Examined by Mr. Adolphus._
_Q._ What are you?
_A._ A watchmaker and silversmith.
_Q._ Do you live at Hull?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Look at those watches that lie there; did you sell those watches?
_A._ No, neither of those.
_Q._ Did you sell a watch to the gentleman who sits there?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ For how much money?
_A._ Twenty-nine guineas and a half, L30. 19_s._ 6_d._
_Q._ When was that?
_A._ The 4th of March.
_Q._ What name did he pass by?
_A._ We did not hear any name.
_Q._ How did he pay you?
_A._ In one pound Bank of England notes.
_Q._ Did you write any name upon them?
_A._ I put my own initials upon them.
_Q._ So that you will know them again if they are produced?
_A._ Yes.
[_Mr. Miller produced some bank notes._]
_Mr. Adolphus (to Bramley.)_ Look at those, and see whether those are
part of what you received?
_A._ All these notes we took of the gentleman we sold the watch to, on
the 4th of March.
_Q._ And that is the gentleman who sits there? (_pointing to De
Berenger._)
_A._ Yes.
_Lord Ellenborough._ What mark have you put upon them to know them
again?
_A._ My own initials and the dates; it is written at the top end of the
note.
_Q._ How are you enabled to say that those seven notes are what you
received from the person who bought that watch?
_A._ We took no other Bank of England notes on that day.
_Q._ You marked them at the time you received them?
_A._ Yes, I received twenty in the forenoon, and the other eleven in the
afternoon, and I marked them and paid them away the same afternoon.
_Cross-examined by Mr. Park._
_Q._ I understand you to say neither of those watches found in the
possession of Mr. De Berenger is the watch you sold?
_A._ Neither of them.
_Q._ You wrote upon all the notes?
_A._ Yes.
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