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Q. You say you know Mr. Butt did lend Lord Cochrane two hundred pounds?
A. So I understood; I did not see him lend it.
Mr. Gurney. He does not know that it was lent?
Mr. Scarlett. How do you know that it was lent?
A. Only by Mr. Butt saying so.
Lord Ellenborough. At what time?
A. The 15th of February.
Lord Ellenborough. This check is dated the 19th?
Mr. Scarlett. You received in payment for that check, two notes of L.100. each?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. What did you do with those two notes of 100l. each?
A. I gave them to Lord Cochrane.
Q. That was on the 19th of February?
A. Yes, it was.
Q. Were you present when Lord Cochrane paid those notes back to Mr. Butt?
A. I was not.
Q. Though you were not present when those notes were given by him to Mr. Butt, do you know that those notes were in Mr. Butt's hands afterwards?
A. I know of receiving them from him.
Q. Though you paid them to Lord Cochrane upon the 19th, did you not afterwards receive them from Mr. Butt?
A. I received the two L.100. notes I have now looked at from Mr. Butt.
Q. It was by Mr. Butt's desire you changed them for small notes at the Bank?
A. Yes.
Q. That you say was the 24th of February?
A. Yes.
Q. For Mr. Butt?
A. Yes.
Q. Was Lord Cochrane in the city at that time?
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