Part 138

A. It is.

Mr. Gurney. In what Bank notes did you pay it?

A. In 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.