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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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